Peter Obi, LP Failed To Prove INEC Manipulated Election Results To Favour Tinubu –Tribunal
Peter Obi, LP Failed To Prove INEC Manipulated Election Results To Favour Tinubu –Tribunal
Obi and LP in their petitions alleged that the electoral body failed to upload the results quickly to alter the results in favour of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
The Presidential Election Petitions Court has said that Peter Obi and the Labour Party failed to establish that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) intentionally refused to upload polling unit results to IReV.
Obi and LP in their petitions alleged that the electoral body failed to upload the results quickly to alter the results in favour of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
But the five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, on Wednesday, said nothing in the petition proves that INEC deliberately did so to manipulate the results of the 2023 presidential election.
It said the Electoral Act 2022 made no provision for electronic transmission of election results.
Tsammani said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) is the only technological device that INEC was mandated to use in the election.
According to the court, INEC regulations and the Electoral Act give the electoral body the power to decide how best to collate results, including manually.
It said the petitioners failed to establish corruption in the collation of the results.
Credit: Sahara Reporters
