Ahead of the March 18 Governorship and State Assembly Elections, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to come out and vote in defense of democracy.

The former Vice President, who in a broadcast yesterday, said all hope is not lost as he will reclaim his “mandate”, urged Nigerians not to give in to voter apathy due to the inability of the electoral body to transmit election results electronically in consonance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.

In the meantime, the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have WITHDRAWN an application they filed to compel the INEC to “allow their agents participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers” which were used for the February 25 presidential election.

Both the PDP and Atiku, who are separately challenging the outcome of the election which was declared in favour of APC Candidate, Bola Tinubu, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, that they have “deemed it fit to discontinue the application”, prompting the Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led three-member panel to strike out the application.