The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Abia said on Monday in Umuahia that it had received 13 petitions on the polls conducted on April 4.
In Enugu State, the EPT has received seven petitions on the NASS elections in the state.
The Secretary of the tribunal in Abia, Mrs Josephine Ekperobe, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Umuahia that five petitions were for the Senate, while the remaining eight were for the House of Representatives.
She declined to disclose the constituencies being for contested in the petitions.
Ekperobe, however, said that details of the petitions and membership of the tribunal would be made public on Tuesday (today) at the tribunal’s inaugural sitting in the state.
The Secretary of the tribunal, Malam Yusuf Musa, told the NAN on Monday in Enugu that the tribunal had yet to fixed dates for hearing of the matters.
He said all the petitions emanated from the National Assembly contests in the state.
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20 petitions in Enugu, Abia