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Presidential Poll: Atiku files petition, insists Tinubu not qualified to contest

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has filed a petition to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential election that was held on February 25.

Atiku, in the petition, marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023, which he lodged before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, applied for the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return that was issued to Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

He maintained that the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election was “invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022”.




“The 2nd Respondent was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the Election.

“The 2nd Respondent was at the time of the Election not qualified to contest the Election”, Atiku added while listing grounds he said the court should consider nullifying Tinubu’s election.

He prayed the court to declare him the winner of the presidential election, having secured the second-highest number of lawful votes cast at the election.

Meanwhile, Vanguard learned that Atiku’s legal team perfected the petition filing process at the Registry of the Court, late in the night on Tuesday.

It will be recalled that the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had Monday night, also filed a petition before the court to void the declaration of Tinubu as the President-elect.


They prayed the court to hold that Tinubu was not legally qualified to contest the election, alleging that he was previously convicted and fined the sum of $460,000.00 by the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, in Case No: 93C 4483, for an offence involving dishonesty and drug trafficking.

Obi prayed the court to declare him as the candidate that secured the majority of the lawful votes cast with the required constitutional spread of not less than 25% of the votes cast in at least 2/3 of the States of the Federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

In the alternative, he prayed the court to order a fresh poll, with the exclusion of both Tinubu and the APC, by virtue of their non qualification to participate in the election.

It will be recalled that INEC had on March 1, announced Tinubu as the winner of the presidential poll, ahead of 17 other candidates that contested the election.

It declared that Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes and Obi who came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/presidential-poll-atiku-files-petition-insists-tinubu-not-qualified-to-contest/

Good...He is not even qualified to be a free man, not to talk of becoming the president of Africa's biggest economy... Na where el chapo, Pablo Escobar them dey him suppose dey, nonsense.

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Go to court, go to court.
Dem don go court. People don de fear their head.

PO leads others follow

Peter Gregory Obi is coming. Hit like if you believe

Elephant dey beg lion but monkey too dey shout say shey you no see say I be animal, too?

Hahahaha, the bastard of iragbiji will regret the day he uttered that emi lokan nonsense.

He will not only return that certificate, he will also leave the rest of his life in shame. Anyways, I see him ending up like Awolowo.

Otapiapia has been saving people from misery since ages now, so he should go and do the needful

But I thought Atiku already withdrew his case earlier. Now he has seen that Obi is likely to win the case, he petitioned again. Omo, things are getting messier for the drug baron.

Massiveglory:
Go to court, go to court.
Dem don go court. People don de fear.

Who dey fear. All these allegations are not new,as they have been dealt with before. All the same it is good so as to finally shut up all opposition.

[quote author=Massiveglory post=121964129]Go to court, go to court.
Dem don go court. People don de fear.[/quote0] Children of hate and pedition... This atiku and obi court charge has vindicated APC that the election is free and fair... Non of them complain that TINUBU rig ELection after dey had done their inspection on bvas and irev...

To say the truth here... Obi is a pure ipob and enemy of nigeria....

Tinubu had won dis same court charge before when he was Lagos State GOVERNOR and he won....The judge ruled that the offences was committed in foreign land not nigeria....

Finally no concrete evidences that tinubu involved in drug business....

Obi is a warrior