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Festus Keyamo Appearing in Tinubu’s Defense at the Tribunal

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Festus Keyamo, former Minister of State for Employment, appeared in court for the first time since the Presidential Election Petition Court convened on Tuesday morning.

 

Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, donned his legal robe for President Bola Tinubu’s defense on Tuesday.

The hearing is slated to begin today, after the court merged all of the petitions before it on the previous adjourned date.

DSMEDIA24 recalls that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and his Labour Party counterpart, Pete Obi, had petitioned the tribunal to overturn Tinubu’s victory on the grounds of substantial non-compliance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Electoral Act, and the Independent National Electoral Commission guidelines INEC is responsible for the election’s administration.

Atiku, a former vice president, is requesting that the court force the electoral authority to hold a new election due to alleged irregularities at polling units during the presidential election.

Obi, a former governor of Anambra, is also alleging several anomalies in the election’s conduct, claiming that Tinubu and his running companion, Senator Kashim Shettima, were not entitled to run.

Meanwhile, Tinubu and Shettima were sworn in by Nigeria’s Chief Justice, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, on Monday at Eagles Square in Abuja.

 

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