Six states drag FG to Supreme Court, want election results cancelled
The state governments of Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Sokoto have dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to the Supreme Court over the conduct of the February 25th general election where Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner.
The six states which are controlled by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) want the Supreme Court to nullify the election, and the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Tinubu as President-elect be null and void.
They added that the whole results of the presidential election, as announced by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, violate provisions of the Electoral Act.
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They further demanded a declaration that the refusal to upload the results of each of the 176,974 Polling Units nationwide, in respect of the Presidential and National Assembly Election, was not in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.
Neptune Prime reports that after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President-elect having polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rivals, Atiku and Obi who scored 6,984,520 and 6,101, votes, respectively, the two candidates refused to concede defeat and vowed to recover their mandate in court.
Earlier, the Court of Appeal in Abuja granted permission to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) to inspect election materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.
