On Wednesday, September 6, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is set to deliver its judgment on petitions challenging the declaration of Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the February 25 presidential election winner.

Following the closure of their cases in June, the petitioners—The People’s Democratic Party with its standard bearers, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, and the Labour Party—await the court's verdict. The court also has pending petitions from the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging Tinubu's election victory.

The court consolidated the three petitions into one case to streamline the proceedings, as they all addressed related election issues. The petitions are CA/PEPC/05/2023, CA/PEPC/04/2023, and CA/PEPC/03/2023.

The case stems from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaration on March 1, 2023, which declared Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu the election winner. Tinubu secured victory because his party, the All-Progressives Congress (APC), garnered the highest number of votes and met the constitutional requirements by securing at least one-quarter of the votes in two-thirds of the states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Tinubu's victory was confirmed with 8,794,726 votes (36.61% of the total), while Atiku came second with 6,984,520 votes (29.07%), and Peter Obi followed with 6,101,533 votes (25.40%). Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP secured fourth place with 1,496,687 votes (6.40%), and Princess Chichi Ojei, the only female presidential candidate, received 25,961 votes.

The petitioners, Obi and Atiku, argue that INEC's failure to carry out electronic transmission of results from polling units and Tinubu's alleged failure to secure the required majority of votes in the election and in the FCT are key constitutional issues at stake. Additionally, the petitioners raised concerns about the double nomination of the APC vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, as both the vice-president and a senatorial candidate for Borno Central.