 The presidential election petition caught PEPC sitting in Abuja has adjourned till Friday for the proceedings on the petition. The candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, filed to challenge the outcome of the presidential election that held on February 25. The Justice Haruna Samani, led five-member panel, adjourned to continue for the pre-hearing session on the petition, as well as to hear pending applications that were filed by the respondents. Cited as respondents in the matter are the Independent National Electro-Commission INEC, the President-Elect, Ashwajibullah Tinambu, and the All Progressives Congress APC. The respondents are praying the court to dismiss the case in its entirety or in the alternative, strike out many paragraphs of the petition for being incompetent. While adjourning the matter, Justice Samani said the court would decide on the number of witnesses that would be allowed for each of the parties, time to be allocated to them as well as the time to be allowed for cross-examination. He urged the parties to put heads together and agree on further modalities to be adopted.