Battle For Presidency: Intrigues As Tinubu Makes Fresh Demand From Court
- The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has approached the court of appeal for an order to access the sensitive electoral material deployed by INEC in the February 25 presidential election
- Tinubu, who polled 8,794,726 votes to emerge the winner of the election, made the move to defend his victory at the tribunal
- The first and second runners-up in the election, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, have filed suits to challenge the victory of Tinubu at the tribunal
FCT, Abuja - Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has sought an order from the appeal court to access the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) sensitive materials used during the 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the poll, garnered 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), The Cable reported.
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Why Tinubu going to court on election results
Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes to stay ahead of Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate who got 6,101,533 votes in the election.
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Through his lawyer, Akintola Makinde, the president-elect, said he wanted to scan, make photocopies and inspect some of the electoral materials INEC deployed in order for him to prepare his defence against petitions that sought to nullify his election.
Makinde said this while speaking at a court session on Tuesday, February 7.
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His statement reads in part:
“The materials will be relevant in helping us to prepare our defence and also make comparison with the information contained in INEC’s back-end server.”
Tinubu's move followed a series of petitions filed by the PDP, Atiku, Peter Obi and the Labour Party against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, where the APC candidate was declared the winner.
Supreme court upholds Udofia as APC governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom
Legit.ng earlier reported that Akan Udofia had been declared as the authentic governorship candidate of the APC in Akwa Ibom for Saturday's March 11 guber poll.
Ita Enang, an aspirant and former senator, had filed a suit against Udofia, alleging that the APC candidate was not a member of the party as of the time the primary was conducted.
But the supreme court ruled that the party have the prerogative to grant membership waiver, confirming Udofia as the authentic candidate of the APC.
Source: Legit.ng
