Some details of the petition filed on Monday by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, emerged on Tuesday. The 141-page petition contained five grounds, one of which resuscitates the allegation that Buhari was not qualified to run for the office of the President on the grounds that he did not possess the constitutional minimum qualification of a school certificate. The was filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission, Buhari and the APC as the first to the third respondents respectively. Names of 21 Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 18 other lawyers appeared on the petition.
