Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment

Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi are conspicuously absent at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal where judgment in their petitions are to be delivered.

Apart from Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, no notable politician from the PDP is in court.

However, the Labour Party was represented by Julius Abure, the national chairman of the party.

As at the time of filling this report, Signature TV cannot ascertain the reasons for their absence as Atiku’s media director, Mr Paul Ibe did not respond to phone calls sent to him.

At the time of this report, the Tribunal members led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani have arrived to deliver judgment in the three petitions

Justice Tsammani has ordered that judgment in the petition of Peter Obi and the Labour party be first delivered.