The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted an ex-parte application by the second runner-up in the recent presidential election, Peter Obi, seeking leave to serve his election petition on the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President-Elect, Kashim Shettima, via substituted means.
According to Obi’s counsel, Tinubu and his lawyers have frustrated efforts to be served the election petition filed to challenge his victory.
Peter Obi’s counsel, Ikechukwu Ezechukwu (SAN) argued that it had been essential to serve the court filings through “substituted means” on Tinubu and Shettima due to heightened security protection around the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect.
While ruling on the application, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, led by Haruna Tsammani, has permitted Obi to serve the court documents on Tinubu and Shettima through the office of the legal adviser of the APC.
The court ordered that the petition be served on Tinubu and Shettima “by delivering…or pasting the petition No:CA/PEPC/03/2023 and all other processes filed in the petition at either the office of the National Legal Adviser of the ‘APC or…with any other officer of the APC’ at its National Secretariat at No.40 Blantyre Street, Off Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse 2, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”
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