Breaking : Buhari defeat Atiku at presidential Tribunal... Particulars

The tribunal dismissed the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar’s petition for lack of benefit.

Atiku had challenged the President’s re-election, citing election irregularities and non-compliance with the electoral act.
The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) had declared Buhari who represented the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the election ,after polling 15,191, 847 votes whereas the PDP candidate garnered 11, 262, 978 votes.

The five-man panel led by Justice Muhammad Garba dominated on a number of petitions referring to the presidential election..

Different members of the panel are – Justice Abdul Aboki (Courtroom of Attraction, Abuja), Justice Joseph Ikyegh (Courtroom of Attraction, Benin), Samuel Oseji (Courtroom of Attraction, Lagos) and Justice Peter Ige ( Courtroom of Attraction, Abuja).

In one in all its rulings, the panel dismissed an software filed by INEC looking for the disqualification of Atiku’s lead counsel, Livy Ozoukwu.

INEC had described Ozoukwu as a “lawyer unknown to the judiciary.”

The tribunal additionally agreed with the counsel to the President that it can not adjudicate on the allegations that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo used unappropriated authorities’s funds to induce voters.

Justice Garba, who learn the lead judgement, held that President Buhari ” is eminently certified” to contest the 2019 presidential election..

Citing a earlier Supreme Courtroom judgment, he stated: “Submission of instructional certificates isn’t a requirement for qualification to contest election for governor below part 177 of the Structure.

“It’s established {that a} candidate isn’t required below the Electoral Act to connect his certificates to his Kind CF001 earlier than a candidate is adjudged to have the requisite qualification to contest the election.

“In impact, the 2nd defendant went by means of secondary schooling after which proceeded to navy college. The navy college is greater than secondary schooling.

“”Thus our conclusion is that Buhari isn’t solely certified however eminently certified to contest the presidential election.”

“The onus rests squarely on the petitioners to show their assertion that the 2nd respondent doesn’t possess the academic qualification to contest the election or that he submitted false data which is prime in nature to help his qualification. This I’ve talked about that the petitioners did not show. The petitioners can not, subsequently, depend on any failure within the case.

“I come to the conclusion and I resolve points 1 and a couple of in opposition to the petitioners.

““I’ve little doubt in my thoughts that the petitioners have did not show that the second respondent doesn’t possess the qualification to contest the election into the workplace of the President as stipulated in part 131, 137, 138 of the Structure. I’m additionally of the agency view that the petitioners have did not show that the second respondent submitted false data which is prime in nature to help his qualification to contest the election into the Workplace of the President as prescribed in part 35(1) of the Proof Act, 2011.”

The tribunal additionally dismissed the PDP declare on central server and digital transmission of outcomes.

The panel insisted that guide supplied by INEC didn’t present for digital transmission of outcomes.

Justice Garba added: “These claims can’t be countenanced as a result of they lack price.

“Based mostly on the obtainable proof, it’s clear that the outcomes had been collated manually.

“The proof and report of witness 59 of the petitioners (PW59), can’t be relied on that there was certainly INEC server or servers, because the case could also be, into which the outcomes of the presidential election had been transmitted.

“Card reader machine has not changed the voter register. A petitioner should depend on the cardboard reader to show non-accreditation or over voting..

” “I’ve fastidiously examined and examined Exhibit 28 (INEC Handbook for Election) tendered by the petitioners, I didn’t see the place there’s provision for digital transmission of results of election..”

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