The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, close their case at the Presidential Election Petition tribunal in their joint petition challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

The petitioners, according to a pre-hearing report were supposed to close their case on Tuesday, but the petitioner’s lead counsel, Chris Uche, SAN prayed the court to allow them two more days after June 12 public holiday affected their hearing.

Earlier, Uche accused the independent national electoral commission of releasing 14 out of 36 Certified True Copies (CTC) EC8A, documents requested to propagate their case.

INEC, President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, (APC) are expected to open their case after the petitioners close theirs.

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