In what a lawyer described as the
longest court sitting in the history of Nigeria, the presidential election
tribunal spent over eight hours delivering judgement on the petition Atiku
Abubakar filed to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the
2019 general election.
Atiku ran on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while Buhari contested under the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Among the grounds of his petition
was that Buhari was not qualified to contest for president, and that he
garnered more votes than the APC candidate, citing the server of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
But the tribunal declared that
Buhari was “eminently qualified” to contest the presidential election. It also
ruled that the petitioners failed to prove that INEC transmitted results
electronically.
In the end, it was a unanimous
judgement against the PDP candidate as the court dismissed his petition for
lack of evidence.
Click here to download the
tribunal’s verdict.
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