The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted permission to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to serve their petition challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 election on President Muhammadu Buhari through substituted means.
A three-man bench which sat on Wednesday in a âpre-hearing sessionâ of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, granted the request contained in the petitionersâ ex parte application.
It stated that Buhari, who is the second respondent to the petition, be served through any senior official or an officer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the partyâs secretariat in Abuja.
Granting the ex parte application, Justice Abdu Aboki, who led the panel and read the ruling, said âit is in the interest of justiceâ to grant the prayers in the petitionersâ application.
The petitioners had on March 18, 2019, filed their case to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commissionâs declaration of Buhari and his party, the APC, as the winner of the election.
