[size=13pt]Buhari’s CPC sues Jega, INEC[/size]
on MAY 7, 2011 · in HEADLINES
By Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Political Editor, Ikechukwu Nnochiri

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday launched a legal battle over last month’s presidential election with indication that it intends to rely heavily on evidence provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The CPC whose candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, came second in the election approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to compel INEC and all its Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to furnish it with certain documents and material evidence that will be pivotal to the success of its petition against the result of the election.

About 400 other petitioners who contested the National Assembly, governorship and state Assembly elections have also gone to court over their defeat.


Buhari and Jega
Defendants in the CPC suit are INEC National Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega; the presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; his running mate, Architect Namadi Sambo; the PDP; and all the Resident Electoral Commissioners for the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

In an ex-parte motion filed yesterday by counsel to the plaintiff, Chief Ricky Tarfa , SAN, pursuant to Sections 77(1) and 151 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), Order 26 Rule 8 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2009, CPC is seeking an order directing  all the respondents  to seal all the Direct Data Capturing Machines (DDC machines), ballot papers, as well as  the ballot boxes used in the Presidential Election with a view to preserving same for Forensic test in the course of  hearing a petition  it is yet to file before the tribunal.

jmaine:

Opposition wins , they claim it is victory for democracy. Opposition loses , they claim it was rigged . . The Nigerian politicking story so far

ahidjo:

Sometimes I wonder which planet people like you come from. In any truly free and fair election, PDP or any bad party like PDP will not win elections anywhere. God's anger will still vist those that clinically perpetrated the biggest electoral fraud in history in the SS and SE. There was no way Jonathan would have won election without a run off. Yes I know some people will start their usual illogical statements like Buhari did not campaign in the south east, south south, Jonathan would still have won in these areas blah blah blah. Nigerians have proven to be a people that don't think and refuse to learn. Meanwhile governance has ground to a halt in Nigeria while the "elected" president is "chilling" in Obudu. He feels less concerned about current cost of living (the highest in the world) and the unbearable hardship in Nigeria. I do not have any sympathy whatsoever for those who were happy to vote for PDP

ahidjo:

[size=14pt]Sometimes I wonder which planet people like you come from. In any truly free, fair and fraud free (Most Nigerians are used to fraud in one way or the other so it does not bother them)election, PDP or any bad party like PDP will not win elections anywhere. God's anger will still vist those that clinically perpetrated the biggest electoral fraud in history in the SS and SE. There was no way Jonathan would have won election without a run off. Yes I know some people will start their usual illogical statements like Buhari did not campaign in the south east, south south, Jonathan would still have won in these areas blah blah blah. Nigerians have proven to be a people that don't think and refuse to learn. Meanwhile governance has ground to a halt in Nigeria while the "elected" president is "chilling" in Obudu. He feels less concerned about current cost of living (the highest in the world) and the unbearable hardship in Nigeria. I do not have any sympathy whatsoever for those who were happy to vote for PDP[/size]

jmaine:

Opposition wins , they claim it is victory for democracy. Opposition loses , they claim it was rigged . . The Nigerian politicking story so far

jmaine:

Opposition wins , they claim it is victory for democracy. Opposition loses , they claim it was rigged . . The Nigerian politicking story so far

ahidjo:

[size=14pt]Sometimes I wonder which planet people like you come from. In any truly free, fair and fraud free (Most Nigerians are used to fraud in one way or the other so it does not bother them)election, PDP or any bad party like PDP will not win elections anywhere. God's anger will still vist those that clinically perpetrated the biggest electoral fraud in history in the SS and SE. There was no way Jonathan would have won election without a run off. Yes I know some people will start their usual illogical statements like Buhari did not campaign in the south east, south south, Jonathan would still have won in these areas blah blah blah. Nigerians have proven to be a people that don't think and refuse to learn.[b] Meanwhile governance has ground to a halt in Nigeria while the "elected" president is "chilling" in Obudu. He feels less concerned about current cost of living (the highest in the world) and the unbearable hardship in Nigeria. [/b]I do not have any sympathy whatsoever for those who were happy to vote for PDP[/size]

abibio2001:

I really dont understand why all the fuss about CPC not accepting the election results and going to court. We keep shouting democracy, democracy, rule of law, rule of law yet we are anti-democratic and against the rule of law in the real sense of it. CPC and indeed any other party for that matter has every right to reject any election results and go to court, abi does that stop GEJ from being sworn in on May 29, so whats the fuss about, thats the beauty of democracy and rule of law, everyone has a right to his opinion and to pursue the fulfillment of his opinion within the ambits of the law except we are just hypocritical about practicising democracy and the rule of law

Bensonite:


Surely it does not stop GEJ from being sworn in. The surprise is that Buhari said severally that he was not going to challenge the results. He had a plan B to use the aboki to kill sourtherners/chriatains and cause the country to go to war because of his ambition but now he his going to court after some corpers  and sourtherners killed .