Peter Obi and the Labour Acquire collectively of their petition now not easy the victory of Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election argued that the electoral body, INEC failed to transmit election results from the polling devices to the collation centres electronically.
The Presidential Election Petition Court has mentioned that the Self sustaining Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) turned into at liberty to transmit results alternatively it wanted, and now not most efficient electronically.
Peter Obi and the Labour Acquire collectively of their petition now not easy the victory of Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election argued that the electoral body, INEC failed to transmit election results from the polling devices to the collation centres electronically.
Nonetheless, the court docket on Wednesday mentioned there turned into nowhere in law where INEC turned into most efficient required to transmit results by electronic methodology.
The defendant is at liberty to think how it would transmit election results, the court docket held.
It extra held that there might perchance be now not any requirement for INEC to electronically transmit the effects of the election.
Earlier, the court docket held that it turned into irrelevant that President Bola Tinubu failed to score 25% of the votes solid in a minimal of two-thirds of the states of the federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
SaharaReporters had reported that Peter Obi and the Labour Acquire collectively prayed the court docket to say him as the candidate that secured the bulk of the correct votes solid with the mandatory constitutional spread of now not now not as much as 25% of the votes solid in a minimal of two-thirds of the states of the federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
But in its ruling on Wednesday, the court docket held that it turned into irrelevant.
It agreed with the argument of the respondent that “the FCT doesn’t journey a certain space, that Abuja is inhabited by Nigerians and that Abuja doesn’t journey any particular privilege.”
“It turned into observed as irrelevant,” it held.
Earlier the court docket mentioned Peter Obi and the Labour Acquire collectively (LP) failed to discover anomalies of their petition in opposition to President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
