Election: Atiku appoints 18 SANs to prove ‘victory’ [FULL LIST]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has assembled a team of experienced lawyers to represent him at the Election Petition Tribunal.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the former Vice President inaugurated the legal team on Tuesday at his campaign headquarters in Abuja.

Atiku is contesting the outcome of the February 25 presidential election which produced Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the president-elect.

According to him, his team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) would help him to reclaim his “stolen mandate”.

The members of the team include Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Chris Uche (SAN), Paul Usoro (SAN), Tayo Jegede (SAN), Ken Mozia (SAN), Mahmood Magaji (SAN), Joe Abraham (SAN), Chukwuma Umeh (SAN), Dr. Garba Tetengi (SAN) and Chief Emeka Etiaba (SAN).

Others are Chief Goddy Uche (SAN), Prof. Maxwell Gidado (SAN), A. K. Ajibade (SAN), O. M. Atoyebi, (SAN), Nella Rabana (SAN), Paul Ogbole (SAN), Nuremi Jimoh (SAN), and Abdul Ibrahim (SAN).

Like Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has also headed to court.

Second-placed Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election while Obi emerged third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes.