Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria, has filed a fresh process before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja, accusing the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, of dual citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea.

Atiku also claimed that Tinubu did not disclose facts of his constitutional qualifications in his Form EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), contrary to the provisions of the law. He insisted that Tinubu was constitutionally disabled from contesting for the office of president.

Atiku further alleged that Tinubu was unfit to lead Nigeria, having been indicted for drug-related offences in the United States and made to forfeit a sum of $460,000 as a compromise agreement.

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In response to Tinubu’s statement, where he described Atiku as a serial election loser, Atiku said that Tinubu was a giant in forfeiture, drug-related offences, and failure to disclose dual nationality to INEC. He challenged the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect, stating that Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win a majority of the lawful votes cast in the February 25 presidential election.

Atiku argued that Tinubu failed part of the constitutional requirements, having failed to secure 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as constitutionally required. He claimed that Tinubu’s return as the winner of the 2023 presidential election was undue, unlawful, and invalid because he did not meet the constitutional requirements.

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Atiku accused Tinubu of deliberately avoiding the points of substance in the petition and opting for extraneous facts, contradictory, evasive, speculative, and vague assertions. Atiku maintained that his identity, comprising age, state of origin, and educational qualifications, had never been in dispute.