The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn a fresh application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25.
Both PDP and Atiku, who are separately challenging the outcome of the election, told the Presidential Election Petition Court that they were no longer interested in the application and have filed a notice of discontinuance.
According to sources, the decision of Atiku to withdraw the application was as a result of a meeting his legal team held with the leadership of the electoral body on Tuesday.
He said they filed the application owing to challenges and administrative bottlenecks they encountered at the INEC office when they went for access to the election materials as ordered by the court.
It was at that meeting which held on Tuesday that all the grey areas were sorted out with INEC, pledging to allow their agents, observe the process of sorting out some of the electoral materials they requested for, especially the ballot papers.
He added that since it was primarily their prayer in the fresh application filed, they felt that it would not be necessary to proceed with the hearing.
Meanwhile, following the withdrawal of the application, the Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led three-member panel struck it out.
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