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, Labour Party was represented by Julius Abure, the national chairman of the party.
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 Labour party be first delivered.
Meanwhile, adequate security has been put in place to ward off any threat to peace within and outside the Court of Appeal complex.
All roads leading to the court have been blocked against traffic.
