Tinubu: Tight Security As Presidential Tribunal Delivers Judgement Today
There is heavy security presence at the Court of Appeal Headquarters in Abuja, where the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, is going to deliver judgement on three petitions that are seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. Heavily armed security agents from the Nigeria Army, Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the Nigeria Civil Defence and Security Corps, NSCDC, are stationed in all entry points to the court, while men of the Department of State Services, DSS, with long lists, verify identities of everyone entering the premises. The court had warned that it would only allow accredited persons into its premises, even as it directed its staff members to stay at home. However, the court said it would permit live broadcast of its judgement on the three petitions. The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court had on August 1, okayed the cases for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument. The petitions, marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023,