No fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been
appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission to defend the
results of the February 25 presidential election.
The team, according to City Lawyer, is to be led by former
Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of
the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien
(SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu (SAN).
It was gathered from a member of the legal team that four
SANs who are staff members of INEC’s legal department are also members of the
team alongside Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi.
INEC budgeted over N3bn to defend the results of the
February 25 presidential and national assembly elections and the March 18
governorship and state assembly polls.
Several candidates who lost in the elections have filed
petitions at the presidential and state election petition tribunals to
challenge the outcome of the polls.
So far, over 100 election petitions have been filed by
aggrieved candidates and their parties across the country.
The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party, Peter Obi; the Action Alliance, Solomon
Okangbuan; Allied Peoples Movement, Chichi Ojei, have also filed petitions for
the nullification of the presidential election results.
The commission had on March 1, 2023, declared Senator Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, as
the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
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