Nigeria: PDP Governors Back Atiku's Bid to Appeal to Supreme Court

16 September 2019

Abuja — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have decided to team up with the party's presidential candidate in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to get the Supreme Court to upturn the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), which rejected his petition to be declared winner of the election.

The tribunal last Wednesday had upheld the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) as winners of the election.

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