Tribunal: Atiku, Obi not specific in petitions, says APGA founder, Chekwas Okorie

I was satisfied that the petitioners failed woefully to specify the polling units or collation centres where they were denied lawful votes

, which could have earned either of them victory at the polls. Rather than prove a case of substantial non-compliance with the electoral law, they seemed to have relied on scoring technical points to win their petitions. Their strategy failed.

“It is clear even to the unwary that the framers of the 1999 constitution could not have intended to confer on the Federal Capital Territory, FTC, superior status to the rest of the states of the Federation.

He congratulated Tinubu while noting that if the petitioners – Atiku and Obi proceed to appeal the judgments, the results will remain the same.

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