Atiku sets to go to court over presidential results
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the country’s main opposition party, Atiku Abubakar, will not concede the presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the final Presidential election results recorded in various states in the country early Wednesday morning.
According to INEC’s figures, President Buhari and his party, the APC defeated Abubakar and his party, the PDP, with a margin of 3,928,869 in Nigeria’s presidential election.
Few hours after the announcement of results, a report has emerged, stating that the Peoples Democratic Party has assembled a team of lawyers to challenge the results in court.
The report quoted sources as saying that Kanu Agabi, ex attorney-general of the federation, is leading the team of lawyers that will challenge the results at the presidential election petitions tribunal of the federal court of appeal, Abuja.
A PDP executive said “We are currently collating evidence to challenge the results being announced by INEC. We have been asking them to give us the data of the card readers used in Borno, Yobe and Nasarawa states but they have so far refused. This is daylight robbery.”
Report also has it that the legal team was set up by Bukola Saraki, the director-general of the PDP presidential campaign, on Tuesday evening at the Legacy House, Abuja.
According to the report, Abubakar could not attend the meeting because he was on “bed rest.”
Information gathered stated that the legal team on Monday summoned an emergency meeting to evaluate complaints about the presidential election and decide on the way forward.
Other members of the legal team, according to the report include Joe Gadzama, who has always served as a lawyer to the party, and Chris Uche among other senior advocates of Nigeria.
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