The controversy surrounding the conduct of the February 25 presidential election deepened on Friday with six States controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asking the Supreme Court to declare the pronouncement of the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) null and void.
INEC declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of the poll.
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But the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, who came second and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came third, have rejected the result as declared by INEC and vowed to challenge the result in court.
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But on Friday, six states, according to a report on Arise Television, headed to the Supreme Court, asking the country’s apex court to declare INEC’s pronouncement on the poll null and void.
Though details of the legal challenge are still sketchy, the states – Bayelsa, Sokoto, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo and Adamawa – are insisting the umpire flagrantly threw overboard the 2022 Electoral Act and its own guidelines in conducting the presidential election.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has shifted to 10 am the delivery of its judgment in the cases filed by some States to challenge the propriety of the naira swap policy of the Federal Government.
An official of the Supreme Court announced the shift in time, a moment ago, to a packed court.
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The official was silent on what informed the shift from the 9am usual sitting time of the court.
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