Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has arrived on the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja for Thursday’s listening to of his petition in search of to overturn Bola Tinubu’s victory.

Atiku turned into a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) withinside the 25 February presidential election.

But Mr Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) clinched the presidency after polling eight.eight million votes to overcome Atiku and Labour Party’s Peter Obi withinside the race.

Atiku and Mr Obi are of their separate petitions tough the final results of the election, alleging that the behavior of the election with the aid of using Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, violated diverse provisions of the Electoral Act.

They alleged manipulation of the electoral technique through INEC in favour of Mr Tinubu.

They entreated the courtroom docket of their separate petitions to both claim them the winner of the election or order a sparkling election.

Thursday makes Atiku’s first look in courtroom docket because the five-member panel commenced sitting on Monday. But Mr Obi, on his part, has been attending courtroom docket on every occasion his case got here up seeing that Monday,

Atiku attended the continued pre-listening to classes of the petitions in organization with Dino Melaye, Kogi State PDP governorship candidate, and different birthday birthday celebration stalwarts.

A five-member panel of the Court headed through Haruna Tsammani, constant today, Thursday, for listening to of Atiku’s request for a stay broadcast of the courtroom docket’s proceedings.

He had argued in courtroom docket filings that a telecast of the listening to might increase Nigerians’ self belief withinside the courtroom docket as it’d decorate transparency.