This followed admission by INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, that the election, through which Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress , was declared winner, suffered discounts and did not fully comply with laws guiding its conduct.
Commenting on the development, TAAGG said, in a statement in Lagos, signed by its leader, Obiora Okonkwo, urged INEC to use available legal windows to review the elections and invalidate those that were grossly challenged. The TAAGG leader cited Sections 134 9b of the Electoral Act as empowering INEC to review the elections and suspend issuance of certificates.
Okonkwo argued that by the admission of the INEC chairman and his decision to penalise officials who aided and abetted the flaws recorded in the presidential election, the Commission is now morally and legally bound to withhold the issuance of certificates of return to persons whose elections are disputed on account of the irregularities pointed out by the chairman.