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Tuesday, 04 July 2023 04:52

INEC opens, closes defence against Atiku’s petition at PEPC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, closed its case after calling a witness in Atiku Abubakar’s petition contesting the election of President Bola Tinubu on 25 February. Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is urging the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to set aside Tinubu’s victory on account of gross non-compliance with Nigeria’s electoral laws in the conduct of the presidential poll. INEC on 1 March declared Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) election winner. At the resumed proceedings on Monday, INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, called the first witness, Lawrence Bayode, an assistant director in charge…

Tuesday, 04 July 2023 04:51

PEPC admits EU’s Election Report against INEC, Tinubu

Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission in Nigeria which faulted the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. A five-member panel of the court presided by Haruna Tsammani admitted the document yesterday after it was tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Lawyers to President Bola Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Lateef Fagbemi, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud objected to the admissibility of the document. The EU mission had in its report claimed the presidential election did not…

Monday, 03 July 2023 03:19

Tinubu rejects EU Report on 2023 elections

The Presidency has rejected the report of the European Union on the outcome of the 2023 general elections. In its final report on the Nigerian elections, the globally acclaimed body said trust in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had been severely damaged, especially as a result of the failure to upload the result of the presidential election electronically. But responding in a statement on Sunday, Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, described the report as a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few instances of skirmishes in…

Monday, 03 July 2023 03:18

PEPC resumes today to hear Tinubu’s defence against Obi, Atiku’s petitions. Here’s summary of proceedings so far

After three weeks of legal fireworks sparked by the move by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to invalidate the outcome of the 23 February election at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, President Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), are set to open their defence on Monday. Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, also a respondent in the cases pending at the court, will commence its defence of the outcome of the election before the five-member panel of the court headed by Haruna Tsammani on Monday (today). Tinubu of the APC emerged as Nigeria’s 16th leader in…

Friday, 30 June 2023 03:01

Obi on Tinubu’s long convoy: Displaying ostentation while asking people to make sacrifices wrong

Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has urged leaders at every level in Nigeria to lead by example. The call came against the background of the outrage being expressed by Nigerians over the “outlandish display of power” by President Bola Tinubu during a recent visit to Lagos State. Head, Obi-Datti Media Office, Diran Onifade, in a statement Thursday, said Tinubu during the visit was escorted by an unprecedented 124-vehicle convoy. According to him, not since the creation of Nigeria by the British has such mindless and embarrassing exhibitionism been purveyed by a politician. Not…

Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:58

Public trust in INEC severely damaged by its handling of 2023 elections - EU

The 2023 general elections did not ensure a well-run transparent, and inclusive democratic process as assured by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has said. The EU EOM noted that shortcomings in the law and electoral administration hindered the conduct of well-run and inclusive elections and damaged trust in INEC. In its final report released on Tuesday in Abuja, the EU EOM said public confidence and trust in INEC were severely damaged during the presidential poll and were not restored in state-level elections, leading civil society to call for an independent audit…

Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:46

PEPC: Atiku’s witness tenders Tinubu’s academic records alleging president stole a woman’s identity

Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, on Friday, admitted as exhibitPresident Bola Tinubu’s academic records obtained from the Chicago State University, United States of America. The five-member court headed by Haruna Tsammani admitted the documents as exhibits, while the legal teams of Tinubu, APC, and INEC argued that the documents were not admissible and promised to give their grounds objection in their final addresses. The documents were tendered by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, who is challenging the outcome of the 25 February presidential election. Atiku had filed a petition calling the court to overturn…

Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:45

Obi closes case against Tinubu after loading PEPC with tons of documents, 13 witnesses

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday, closed his case at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja with the 13 witnesses he called to prove his case against President Bola Tinubu’s election. Mr Obi had proposed to call 50 witnesses but could only call 13 within the court allotted time. He also tendered tons of electoral documents. Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, had declared Tinubu winner of the 25 February election. Displeased with the results, Obi, who came third in the election, filed a petition at the court to challenge Tinubu’s victory. He and his party filed…

Friday, 23 June 2023 04:34

Atiku’s witness tells PEPC BVAS machines given to him for inspection by INEC all had presidential results deleted

A witness for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that results on all 110 BVAS machines he inspected were deleted. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine is an electronic device distributed across the over 176,000 polling units in the country by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the accreditation of voters during the 2023 general elections. The device was also designed to promptly upload photographic copies of result sheets to the INEC Results View (IReV) portal after result documentation at the polling units. Atiku…

Friday, 23 June 2023 04:33

Obi features cybersecurity expert as witness against INEC at PEPC

Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Thursday fielded more witnesses in aid of its petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court. The petitioners are protesting the outcome of the last presidential elections wherein the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu as the elected president. Tinubu contested under the platform of the All Progressives Congress. During the resumed hearing in the matter, Ugwuoke who was led in evidence by the petitioners’ counsel, Patrick Ikweato, insinuated that the Amazon Web Service could not have shut down as it was the responsibility of the service provider to be up…

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Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:58

PEPC: Obi tenders PVC records from 32 states, features witnesses on INEC’s IReV

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, tendered tons of electoral documents, including Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) records before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. In furtherance of his suit challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 25 February presidential election, Obi, through his lawyer, Livy Uzoukwu, presented certified true copies (CTCs) of documents detailing the total number of registered voters and PVCs. Uzoukwu said the electoral documents were from the 32 states of the federation. He further listed other documents to include – CTCs of supplementary INEC Results Viewing report regarding three local government areas of Benue…

Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:57

APM closes case against Tinubu after calling one witness to testify at PEPC

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has closed its case against President Bola Tinubu’s election, after calling one witness to support its petition. Chichi Ojei, APM’s candidate, had scored 25,961 votes during the February 25 presidential election. The party is contending that Tinubu was improperly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) since he nominated Kashim Shettima as his vice-presidential candidate for the election. It claims that at the time Shettima accepted to be APC’s vice-presidential candidate, he was still the party’s candidate for Borno central senatorial district. At the court session on Wednesday, the party called its sole witness, Aisha Abubakar,…

Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:50

Atiku, PDP to close case against Tinubu at PEPC on Friday

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have indicated that they would close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Friday. According to the pre-hearing report, the petitioners ought to close their case on Tuesday. However, at the session on Tuesday, Chris Uche, petitioners’ counsel told the court that his team lost two days out of the days allotted to them. One of the lost days was a public holiday to mark Democracy Day. He prayed the court for an extension of time by two days which the court agreed. Earlier, Uche applied to tender…

Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:47

Obi brings staff of INEC’s website host to PEPC to refute claims of IReV glitches during presidential election

A witness of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that the INEC’s IReV portal did not experience any glitches to justify the failure to upload real time the polling unit results of the 25 February presidential election. INEC had, in a statement issued a day after the polls by its Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, blamed unexpected technical glitches for the commission’s inability to ensure real-time uploading of results to IReV portal as provided in the guidelines for the election. Voting ended in most of the over 176,000…

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