The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential
candidate, Bola Tinubu, have filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party (LP) and
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from stopping the collation of the
presidential election results.
The suit marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023 was filed before the
federal high court in Kano.
At a media briefing earlier on Tuesday, the LP and PDP asked
Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), to resign.
The parties also demanded that the presidential election be
conducted afresh, saying it was not free and “far from being fair or
transparent”.
In the suit, the APC, Tinubu, and his running mate are
asking the court to restrain the defendants.
In the affidavits supporting the motion on notice, the
plaintiffs submitted that “neither the defendants nor any other person has the
power to stop the process of announcing the result of the election as collated
from various polling units”.
They also stated that “from the result at our situation
rooms as collated in the states of the federation”, Tinubu and Shettima “have
met the requirements of the law to be declared the winner of the election and
accordingly returned as the president and vice president-elect”.
The deponent averred that INEC has been put under enormous
pressure by the defendants and others, including former President Olusegun
Obasanjo.
Owing to pressure being mounted on the INEC, the plaintiffs
stated that there is an urgent need for the court to intervene and put a stop
to those pressurising the electoral commission.
Consequently, the plaintiffs are praying for an order of
injunction “restraining the political parties, their privies, agents,
associates, assigns, sympathisers, supporters, or any other person howsoever
described under whatever guise howsoever spelt, under any guise whatsoever from
taking any step or steps, whether judicial or extrajudicial, that is capable of
preventing the INEC from completing the process of the conduct of the Presidential
election held on February 25”.
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