Atiku mobilizes 19 SANs to challenge INEC's presidential declaration

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has put together a legal team comprising of 17 Senior Advocates of Nigeria to challenge the presidential election results.

Recall that on March 1, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate the All Progressives Congress, the winner of the election held on February 25.

The opposition parties however, disapprove of the election results as they claim that the polls was marred with illegalities, violence, chaos and lacks transparency.

Atiku has instructed his legal team that apart from reclaiming the mandate from those who “undertook the electoral heist”, they should also use the opportunity of the trial to strengthen constitutional democracy in the country.

His legal team is being headed by Chief J. K. Gadzama (SAN), other members include; Chief Chris Uche (SAN), Mr. Paul Usoro (SAN), Tayo Jegede (SAN), Ken Mozia (SAN), Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Mahmood Magaji (SAN), Joe Abraham (SAN), Mr Chukwuma Umeh (SAN), Dr. Garba Tetengi (SAN) and Chief Emeka Etiaba (SAN), Chief Goddy Uche (SAN), Prof. Maxwell Gidado (SAN); the National Legal Adviser of the PDP, A. K. Ajibade (SAN), Mr. O. M. Atoyebi (SAN), Mrs. Nella Rabana (SAN), Paul Ogbole (SAN), Nuremi Jimoh (SAN), and Abdul Ibrahim (SAN).

Bola Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes to beat his contenders Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who had the second-highest figure with 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) was next with 6,101,533 votes.

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