In his closing statement Atiku asks the Tribunal to Declare him President: With victories in 21 states, the People’s Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar has petitioned the Presidential Election Petition Court to be declared the victor of the presidential election held on February 25. EnoughInfo.com
This came as he claimed that the winner, Bola Tinubu, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, was ineligible to run for office due to “an order of criminal forfeiture against him arising from a drug-related offence, his declaration of allegiance to a country other than Nigeria, his acquisition of citizenship of another country, and his presenting a forged certificate to the first respondent (INEC)”.
Additionally, Atiku claimed that he had demonstrated that Tinubu’s election as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s president was invalidated due to “substantial non-compliance with the mandatory provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022 on electronic transmission of results for collation and verification by deliberate bypass of and failure to transmit the election results electronically.”
What he went on saying
Atiku said that INEC’s claim that he won in 21 states had not been “disputed, retracted, debunked, or claimed to be an error through the proceedings of the tribunal so far” in a final statement that was signed by his principal attorney, Chief Chris Uche (SAN). How To Make The Most Of Your Time Between Jobs
The PDP presidential candidate won 21 states of the federation in the presidential election on February 25, according to INEC’s answer to Atiku’s petition.
Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bavelsa, Borno, Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Osun, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara were among the 21 states declared by INEC as having been won by Atiku and the PDP. Cybersecurity Consulting and Its Importance in the Digital Age
Atiku argued that the tribunal should proceed to uphold the declaration because INEC, which said that he won the states on its own, did not refute the allegation during the hearings.
In his closing statement, Atiku asks the Tribunal to Declare him President
However, the first respondent (INEC) unambiguously and explicitly acknowledged in its pleadings—specifically, paragraph 18 on page 13 of its reply to the petition, which was never refuted or retracted—that the petitioners had won 21 states of the federation in the presidential election, which is an admission against interest.
“The first respondent (INEC) thereafter changed the acknowledged result of 21 states for the first petitioner to 12 states as a result of the non-use of the collation via electronic transfer.
“The petitioners have proven that the declaration of the second respondent as the victor of the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, was illegal and unconstitutional because he did not receive one-quarter of the valid votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, as required by the Constitution of the Federal of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended). Al-Ahli agrees MEGA deal to sign Manchester City’s best winger
The petitioners have established that a majority of the valid votes cast in the election did not result in the second respondent being declared legally elected. 41 (e). The respondents provided very little defense evidence and essentially gave up on their claims by failing to call the required witnesses and failing to mount a convincing argument against the petition. 6.02 We humbly propose that our country’s judiciary and its people are at a turning point in history. Bruno Fernandes is the new captain of Man United.
The fact that a presidential election had never been declared invalid by the courts in Nigeria prior to this time, he said, was not a viable justification for not doing so now since, in his opinion, it is extremely right to do so.
