The Presidential Election Petition
Tribunal in its second ruling on Wednesday upheld the argument by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that it was wrong for the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar to raise criminal allegations of intimidation, harassment, corruption,
and so forth against security personnel and some named persons, but who are not
parties to the petition.
The Tribunal said the court
lacked the powers to entertain any criminal allegations against any person, who
is not before it.
The court then struck out the
portions of the petition by Atiku and his party where such allegations are
contained.
The Tribunal had earlier upheld
Atiku and PDP contention that, issues of qualification and whether or not a
candidate supplied false personal information to INEC before the election,
could be heard before or after an election.
The court said questions about a
candidate’s qualification could be heard by either a High Court or an election
tribunal.
It held that it has jurisdiction
to determine the lingering issue of whether or not Buhari was qualified to
contest the election.
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