Seven PDP States Discontinue Suit Challenging Declaration of Tinubu As President-Elect

Seven states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Sokoto – which filed a suit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court challenging the declaration of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, have discontinued the suit.

The Notice of Discontinuance was signed by their lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The plaintiffs had in the suit which had the Attorneys-General of the states as plaintiffs and the Attorney General of the Federation as a defendant, prayed the Supreme Court to intervene in the just concluded general elections, as they claimed that the declaration of  Tinubu did not follow the Electoral Act and INEC’s own laid down guidelines, particularly  the uploading of results to the IREV through the BVAS.

The Plaintiff States also expressed fear of a  potential breakdown of public order and civil disobedience.

The Notice of Discontinuance partly read: “Take notice that the plaintiffs doth hereby wholly discontinue this suit against the defendant herein”.