BREAKING: INEC At Liberty To Prescribe Mode Of Results Transmission – Tribunal Rules

BREAKING: INEC At Liberty To Prescribe Mode Of Results Transmission – Tribunal Rules

On Wednesday, the Presidential Election Petitions Court issued a ruling affirming that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had the discretion to determine the method of transmitting election results during the presidential election held on February 25, 2023.

A five-member panel, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, explained that Sections 52 and 65 of the Electoral Act 2022 provided INEC with the authority to specify the manner in which election results were to be conveyed during the election.

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Consequently, the Tribunal dismissed the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, which contended that President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) should have his victory annulled due to the alleged “failure” of the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV) to electronically upload election results in real-time.

Additionally, the Tribunal rejected Obi and LP’s petitions regarding the allocation of 25 percent of votes to Tinubu in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), asserting that Abuja should be treated like other states in this regard.

Furthermore, the court ruled that the petitioners, Obi and the LP, failed to substantiate their claim that Tinubu had been convicted of money laundering in the United States. Justice Tsammani’s panel determined that there was no evidence presented to establish any record of criminal arrest or conviction against Tinubu by the petitioners.