LIVE UPDATE: (Atiku vs Buhari) Over 20 security officers storm Appeal Court as Tribunal delivers judgement today vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Security was beefed up on Wednesday within the vicinity of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal delivers judgment in the petition filed by Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging president Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the Feb. 23 general election.
NAN reports that the president was declared the winner of the election after scoring 15,191,847 votes as against Atiku’s 11, 262,978 votes. “The laws only mandate any person contesting election in the country to have gone to school up to Secondary School level,’’ he said. “The election took place in 119,976 Polling Units, 8,901 Wards in 774 Local Government Areas across the country.
Usman submitted that the electoral body conducted the Feb.23 presidential election in total compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 . In countering allegations that INEC abandoned its pleadings by not presenting witnesses, the counsel said the commission simply extracted salient pieces of evidence from the petitioners’ pleadings to solidify its defence.
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