Presidential poll: PDP hits judges as tribunal throws out Atiku’s petition

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The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the v

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ictory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 23, 2019 election.

The tribunal held, among others, that contrary to the contention of the petitioners, Buhari had the educational qualification to contest the presidential election. “In effect, the 2nd defendant went through secondary education and then proceeded to military school. The military school is higher than secondary education.”

He said Laleye admitted that Buhari possessed some credits and a pass in his West African School Certificate which qualified him to be commissioned into the Nigerian Army. He ruled, “There is no scintilla of evidence that the school stated in Form CF001 submitted to INEC was not in existence as of that time.

The tribunal also ruled that the election manual issued by INEC for the conduct of the 2019 presidential election did not provide for electronic transmission of results of the election.It added that petitioners’ Witness 59, David Njorga, from Kenya, did not qualify to be referred to as an expert witness, as he only relied on third party information to make a case for the existence of a server into which the results of the election were allegedly transmitted.

It held that none of the documents tendered by the petitioners was utilised to prove the allegations, such as over-voting or non-accreditation of voters. Many, who could not gain entry into the courtroom, were seen monitoring proceedings from their car and others on the phones.

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