Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, ordered Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress, APC, access to all the electoral materials used for the February 23 presidential election.
The tribunal said it was inclined to grant the request pursuant to section 6 of the 1999 Constitution, sections137 and 151 and of the Electoral Act and 47 of the Third Schedule to Electoral Act. Buhari noted that the tribunal had on March 6, granted a similar request in favour of Atiku and the PDP.
“The 1st Respondent is hereby ordered to forthwith, allow the Applicant or his representatives to inspect all the polling documents used in the just concluded presidential election to allow the Applicant to defend any petition that may arise from his declaration as winner of the February 23 presidential election,” the tribunal held.
It will be recalled that the tribunal had earlier granted the same reliefs to the opposition PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku, who had since expressed their dissatisfaction with the declaration of Buhari as winner of the just concluded presidential election.
vanguardngr Okay. To correct their mistakes in rigging abi? Let’s just sell this country abeg 🤦🏾♂️
vanguardngr Why was atiku and PDP denied this same request?
vanguardngr Hmmm