The Nigerian Electoral Appeals Court has started hearing the results of the Presidential Election On May 8, the Nigerian Presidential El...
The Nigerian Electoral Appeals Court has started hearing the results of the Presidential Election
On May 8, the Nigerian Presidential Election Court will start hearing cases that question the results of the February 25 presidential election, which the INEC said Bola Tinubu won.
Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party both disagreed with the results and went to court to fight them.
Atiku said that the results from thousands of voting places were not sent and entered correctly by INEC. So, he asked for the election to be thrown out and a new one to be held.
The former Vice President said that since Tinubu was named the winner of the election on March 1, all of the election results and information proving their authenticity, such as verification from the polling stations, have not been sent to INEC's database (Saver).
Atiku also said that there was a lot of bloodshed, voter intimidation, the theft of ballot boxes, and other problems during the election.
Obi also said that Tinubu didn't get the majority of votes and one-fourth of the votes cast in Abuja, the federal capital, which is one of the requirements for winning the presidential race. He also said that the election was run without following the rules.
The PEPC has an important job to do, which is to look at the petitioners' proof and decide if their claims are true.
The court's ruling will have a big effect on Nigerian politics in the future because it will say whether or not Tinubu was really the winner of the election.
Nigerians and people all over the world are waiting for the court's ruling, which is expected to take several weeks.
The Nigerian government has promised its people that the session will be fair and just, and it has asked everyone to follow the law and the legal system.
The government also asked Nigerians to slow down and be patient while the case is being heard and to avoid doing or saying anything that could cause riots or upset the peace of the country.
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