Nigeria, March 22 -- The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to declare him Nigeria's president-elect.

Alternatively, Atiku urged the court to cancel the election and order a fresh election due to alleged irregularities that marred the 25 February poll in thousands of polling units.

These are part of the seven prayers anchored on five grounds in the petition he filed against the victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday.

His team of senior lawyers led by Joe-Kyari Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), filed the petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday, be...