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The Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission in Nigeria, which faulted the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. The panel, presided by Justice Haruna Tsammani, admitted the document after it was tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The EU mission claimed the election did not show credibility, fairness, and transparency, with only 31% of the results uploaded on IREV. The court agreed with the PDP counsel, who admitted that the electoral body had no electronic collation system for election results. The INEC witness admitted that the collation of the results was done manually by the presiding officers of the electoral body. The witness also admitted that a technical glitch affected the uploading of the results, but it was not reported to Amazon Web Services by the INEC.

The Nigerian Supreme Court has dismissed petitions by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, alleging that they failed to dethrone President Bola Tinubu. Justice Haruna Tsammani ruled that double nomination was not a constitutional ground for disqualification, and Obi and his party failed to prove election irregularities, non-compliance with laws, and corruption. The court also dismissed Obi's claim that he was not validly nominated by the Labour Party to contest the presidential election. The court also ruled that the $460,000 fine imposed on Tinubu in the US was a civil matter.