Politics: Tinubu did not defend Tinubu at the Electoral Appeals Court Since the presidential election on February 25, 2023, which Bola Ahm...
Politics: Tinubu did not defend Tinubu at the Electoral Appeals Court
Since the presidential election on February 25, 2023, which Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC party won, various parties and their candidates have contested his victory in the electoral court.
President Tinubu submitted a petition last week asking the presidential election hearing court to dismiss the APM party's complaint.
The appeal to grant the party complete access to justice was rejected by the five-judge Presidential Election Court, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani.
The APM party and its candidate, Chichi Ajei, have complained to the court that Tinubu is unable to run against them in the presidential election because Kashim Shettima is said to have cut two forms.
Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the attorney in charge of Tinubu's legal team, cited as an illustration how the Supreme Court on May 26 dismissed a case very similar to Tinubu's that was brought by the PDP party for lack of merit.
Additionally, three electoral commission representatives explained to the presidential election complaints court how the direct election results could not be entered into the machine designated to do so promptly during the election. the president at the time.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) employed Janet Nuhu Turaki, Christopher Bulus, and Victoria Sani as "Presiding Officers" in the states of Bauchi, Yobe, and Katsina, according to the three witnesses.
The electoral process proceeded peacefully and according to schedule up until the time of entry, according to Janet Nuhu Turaki, who submitted the evidence last Monday alongside PDP attorney Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) and Atiku Abubakar. when there is a problem with the device not deploying immediately, and the outcomes in the device.
She also testified before the court that the representatives of the parties who attended the poll and she, as the INEC chief officer, who presided over it, all signed the form containing the results of the vote.
Christopher Bulus also stated that the Federal Assembly and Senate elections took place on the same day as the President's. This is the gadget.
The other witness, Sani, claimed she was unable to recall which candidate had won the Katsina State presidential election, but she did claim that the poll had not gone as planned because the outcome had not been taken into account. a machine that is preprogrammed automatically.
The LP party's and its candidate, Peter Obi, claimed that their websites did not have any technological issues during the presidential election on the Amazon Web Serbia (AWS) website, which was presented to the court as proof. the foundation built on February 25th.
In response to LP and Obi's claim that technical issues with http 500 were discovered during the presidential election, INEC defended itself.
Clarita Ogar, an engineer at Amazon, testified that their website did not experience any growth during the election.
Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), the attorney for INEC, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), and Charles Edomsomwan (SAN), the attorney for Tinubu, all dismissed her testimony, arguing that it should not be taken seriously.
Liby Uzoukwu (SAN) and Jibrin Okutepa (SAN), attorneys for the LP party, claimed in another chapter that INEC had not provided them with the materials they had asked or adequately addressed their issues.
They claimed that even though they only have a week left to finish their case, INEC is impeding their efforts to obtain crucial materials utilised in the election.
Okutepa claimed that just a handful in the local governments of Lagos and Gombe had released the machine reports that had been signed on May 29 on Monday.
Mahmoud SAN, the attorney representing INEC, asserted that they only received a summons for the purpose of issuing witnesses, not for INEC.
Following the lawyers' arguments, the chief judge urged the attorneys to work together to accomplish what is right, stating that the court wants to uphold justice and preserve national honour.
According to LEADERSHIP Hausa, the PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its candidate, decreased the number of witnesses they called at the court hearing last Tuesday to 30, and they will wrap up their case on Thursday on their complaint contesting Tinubu's election as president.
The complainants were meant to finish their case on Tuesday, according to the summary report of the hearing, but their lead attorney, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), informed the Presidential Election Complaints Court that they missed two days. He requested their days be returned because they used up their days in the days that were given to them.