Tribunal admits European Union’s final report faulting Tinubu’s victory, 2023 elections

Fadehan Oyeyemi

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Monday admitted to exhibit the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission, which faulted the conduct and outcome of the 2023 presidential election that produced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others.

The report tendered by the former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, was admitted as an exhibit notwithstanding vehement objections by President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In its report, the European Union Election Observer Mission claimed that the presidential election did not show credibility, fairness and transparency in the ways and manners in which it was conducted by INEC.

The report tendered through INEC’s sole witness and Director of Information Technology (IT), Lawrence Bayode, said only 31 percent of the presidential election result was uploaded into INEC’s result viewing portal.

In his evidence-in-chief, Bayode admitted that the electoral body has no electronic collation system for election results, hence, the presidential election result was not electronically collated.

Specifically, the INEC witness admitted that the collation of the presidential election results was done manually by the presiding officers of the electoral body.

Under cross-examination by Atiku Abubakar’s lead counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), the witness admitted that not all the presidential election results were uploaded into INEC’s results viewing centre as of March 1, 2023, when Tinubu was declared and returned as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

While the witness told the court that there was a technical glitch that affected the uploading of the presidential election results, the witness, however, under cross-examination admitted that such a glitch was not reported to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by the INEC.

Under cross-examination by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), lead Counsel to President Tinubu, the witness told the court that Form EC8A formed the basis of the election results and that data and network service were required for the upload of the images of the results captured by the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machine.

He further testified that images captured on BVAS, whether transmitted electronically or manually, will not affect the integrity of the election, especially when results entered into Form EC8As are announced to the hearing and knowledge of party agents.

The INEC Director, while answering another question from Olanipekun, said, the February 25 presidential election results announced in favour of Tinubu were free, fair, transparent and in substantial compliance with the provisions of the law.

Also under cross-examination by Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), lead counsel to the APC, the witness admitted that glitches were experienced on the election day but,however,r said, that the glitches did not affect the final results and scores of candidates at the election

With one witness and four documents tendered, INEC closed its defense in the petition filed by the former Vice President against the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

Meanwhile, President Tinubu has been ordered to open the defense of his victory in the presidential election on Tuesday, June 4, 2023, by the Presiding Justice of the Presidential Election Petition Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani.

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Tinubu would wish he never participated in this presidential election..

He wl hate himself at the end of the day ..

This yeye Mahmood committed far more terrible crime than Emefiele.

Lessons should be learnt

... was admitted as an exhibit notwithstanding vehement objections by President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

If INEC should continue like this, they may soon deny Tinubu and the abracadabra results. Shameless criminal entity.

Ezeama400:
Tinubu would wish he never participated in this presidential election..

He wl hate himself at the end of the day ..

If history repeats itself, Tinubu will still repeat the same thing. Tinubu is a born criminal. He is a criminal by nature.

Of course, the EU simply confirms what many reputable international organisation including Catham House (that both Tinubu and Yakubu went to assured the whole world of a credible election) said about the 2023 presidential election

iSense247:
If history repeats itself, Tinubu will still repeat the same thing. Tinubu is a born criminal. He is a criminal by nature.

Well known fact. "Is it not preposterous and a huge spat on the faces of Nigerians that an individual, who is beleaguered by allegations of corruption, perjury, identity theft, inconsistencies in name and ancestry, as well as alleged narcotics offence for which he forfeited a whopping sum of $460,000 to the United States of America, could present himself for election into the office of the President of the Federal of Nigeria?

"It has indeed become “one day, one goof” for him on the campaign trail. Tinubu urgently needs help, he has to be restrained in spite of himself. What has become very clear is that Tinubu’s chaperones are confirmed wayo people. They are intent on selling to us, “by force, by fire” as pentecostals will say, a holistically defective product...."
https://guardian.ng/opinion/balablu-blu-blu-bulaba-and-other-incantations/amp

It's not Tinubu fault But Buhari is the biggest criminal and evil man ever walk this Earth.

Bulaba is on a borrowed time...he'll soon be disgraced out of that aso rock.


I can't wait to see helinues and Co wail their souls away

Chai!
E be like say dem go soon pursue bulaba commot for that seat o.

EU should come and prove that at the Tribunal

Ezeama400:
Tinubu would wish he never participated in this presidential election..

He wl hate himself at the end of the day ..

This one is not mentally unstable.

Good anything to get that man out of Aso Rock is a welcome development. See the way other countries are already laughing at Nigeria.

WorldRichest:



This WorldRichest one is not mentally unstable.

If Tinubu is rigged out the same way Obi was rigged out, how will you feel? Why are you defending a documented drug baron and election rigger?

how can Inec make claims of glitches in transmitting the presidential results but never reported the issue to Amazon?

I was looking forward to Inec providing an Amazon experts to buttress their claim of glitches in the election with a well detailed report on what went wrong

So na like this igbos go wail for the next 8 years before power goes back to the North? Una go wail till death o. Asiwaju 2023-2031 Insha Allah

Baba is not even concerned......most of u borrow data to come here and type nonsense

Ezeama400:
Tinubu would wish he never participated in this presidential election..

He wl hate himself at the end of the day ..

see the way inec are disgracing themselves, they have nowhere to hide.

Make una no rush. Few days time will be very interesting at the Tribunal

Ezeama400:
Tinubu would wish he never participated in this presidential election..

He wl hate himself at the end of the day ..

Stop dreaming! Court just collected that for collection sake. The one PDP submitted in 2019, what came out of it? Tribunal has no choice but to collect every evidence PDP, APC or LP submit so it will not look as if court is bias. The question how can PDP or LP prove all they call evidences to prove how they won? PDP and LP will soon calm down when court throw away all they called evidences. Anyway, PDP/LP can continue with their illusion, it is not in vain obidients are called headless mobs. When there is no head, then there is no brain for obidient headless mobs to think on their own except dancing to every info that has LP/Obi logo. Your eyes will soon clear!

AntiTerrorist:
If Tinubu is rigged out the same way Obi was rigged out, how will you feel? Why are you defending a documented drug baron and election rigger?

How was Obi rigged out? Obi was properly defeated to a distant third by Tinubu.Is it same Obi who could only score 25% in 16 states is the one you consider as winner?If you say first position was stolen from Obi,was the second position also stolen from him?Use your sen+ se bro.

Tulumbu the yarriba god of criminality will be disgraced like a petty thief.

4TFK:
How was Obi rigged out? Obi was properly defeated to a distant third by Tinubu.Is it same Obi who could only score 25% in 16 states is the one you consider as winner?If you say first position was stolen from Obi,was the second position also stolen from him?Use your sen+ se bro.

Yes, that's what the EU sued INEC for, that's why we're 9n this thread.

Some people can never borrow sense.

The whole world knows Mr Tinubu is just parading himself as the president of Nigeria, when he never won the elections, and Inec quickly declared him winner, without necessarily following due process of allowing the courts to do the needful.

AdesegunSanni89:
So na like this igbos go wail for the next 8 years before power goes back to the North? Una go wail till death o. Asiwaju 2023-2031 Insha Allah

I know that Allah is not a demon so stop mentioning the name of Allah in association with demonic and fraudulent human beings. Allah is greater than Tinubu.

EU report has no effect on the case. As a matter of fact, in the same report, EU commended INEC for improving on past elections significantly. In summary, the report was only based on observations, not facts.