Nigeria, March 24 -- The campaign team of Bola Tinubu has denied the report of a clandestine meeting between the president-elect and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, in the UK.

The campaign, in a statement issued by one of its spokespersons, Bayo Onanuga, said contrary to the claim in the report, Mr Tinubu is still in Paris, France and has not moved to London.

An online medium had reported that the CJN covertly left the country for the UK to have a meeting with the president-elect to discuss the presidential election case.

Two major opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have both filed separate petitions, challenging the results of the 25 February presidential election.

Mr Ti...