Presidential election judgment based on existing laws – Activist vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Mr Frank Tietie, a human rights activist, says judgment of Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that affirmed election of President Muhammadu Buhari is based on existing laws on conduct of elections in the country.
Tietie, who was reacting to the judgment in Abuja on Wednesday said that the judgement had confirmed what many Nigerians had been thinking on the true position of the law.“A Judge cannot go outside the law, no matter how morally sound or morally good an idea or argument is.“However, unacceptable and unpalatable the law may be, with regard to issues like educational qualifications for contesting election.
According to him, the Independent National Electoral Commission did not commit any fundamental error by failing to transmit election results electronically. “If INEC fails to do so, it did not commit any fundamental error, because there is no law now that mandates it,.’’ he said.All rights reserved. This material and any other digital content on this platform may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, written or distributed in full or in part, without written permission from
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