ambale:


The court will decide that, inec needs to get serious, they need to explain their process clearly to the nation

Is that too much to ask?

dahmie2013:
Exactly, politics is local & that is what Tinubu understood.

Formularcr7:
He did not succumb to intimidations.

MrBiGGEST:
He did.

If you don't want to believe it so! Doesn't change the fact that he did.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has asked the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja to dismiss all the petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

INEC had declared that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to win the election.

The commission declared that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, came second with 6,984,520 votes, while it announced Labour Party’s Peter Obi as the second runner-up with 6,101,533 votes.

But Atiku, Obi and some other parties rejected the results announced by INEC and heeded for the tribunal with prayers that the election should be nullified.

All the opposition parties challenging Tinubu’s victory joined INEC as a co-defendant.

In its defence to the various petitions, filed through its team of lawyers led by A. B. Mahmoud (SAN), INEC described Atiku’s petition as “grossly incompetent, vague and academic, saying it was an abuse of the court process.”

INEC affirmed that having scored at least one-quarter of the valid votes cast in 29 states, which is over and above the 24 states threshold required by the constitution in addition to scoring the highest number of the lawful votes cast at the election, Tinubu was properly declared winner and returned as the President-elect.

On the issue of Tinubu not winning the FCT, INEC argued that going by the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, “the FCT has the status of a state and ought to be recognised as one of the states of the federation.”

INEC insisted that it declared Tinubu as winner of the election, considering that he “scored highest valid votes cast at the election and at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in not less than two-thirds of the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”

“The 1st respondent pleads and shall at the trial of this suit rely on all the Electoral Forms including but not limited to Forms ECSA, BCSB, ECSC, ECSD and ECBE used in the course of the Presidential Election held on the 25th day of February 2023,” INEC said.

“The FCT, beyond being the capital of Nigeria, has no special status over and above the other 36 states of the federation to require a candidate in the presidential election to obtain at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in the FCT before being declared winner of the presidential election.

43Ronin:
So the crime for public nuisance is max prison? These judges & politicians will not rest untill the army comes and kills all of them in a coup

Ashirioluwa:
This man did nothing wrong due to the fact that protest is an important part of the democratic process.

bdon12:

Pls check arise tv with chimamanda.She killed asiwaju drug lord

press9jatv:
Federal high Court In Benin has restricted any Lp members or leaders to suspend. Abure remains Lp national chairman. no Appeal on the judgement of the high court in Benin

press9jatv:
APC response in the Presidential election petition tribunal will be dismissed for lacking merit. It’s only Lp that can take a candidate to the court and not other political parties . Supreme Court of justice have ruled on that. APC will suffer another defeat in the tribunal court of justice.

press9jatv:
Wole Olanipekun technicality in the Election Petition tribunal is a Preelection matter. His case will be dismissed in the Presidential Election tribunal. There’s a waiver for a Candidate that decamp to another party to contest for a political positions. APC lost their battles again.

Houseontherock1:
He lives in a glass house but won't stop throwing stones! You hijacked a party using forged documents. Thankfully, it's being addressed in court