The presidential candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, and winner of the February 2019 election, Muhammadu
Buhari, has faulted claim by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar that they won the election.
President Buhari told the
Presidential Election Tribunal that, by the result announced by the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, he (Buhari) and his party, were victorious
in the last election.
The APC candidate also told the
Tribunal that the claim by Atiku and the PDP that the tradermoni policy of the
government was a vote-buying measure was not true.
According to Buhari, the policy
formed one of the many social intervention policies his government had put in
place, directed at alleviating the suffering of the masses.
Buhari asked the Tribunal to
ignore the claim by the petitioners that they won by results they obtained from
a purported INEC server because it lacked legal basis.
Buhari further challenged Atiku
and PDP to show evidence that their votes were depleted and manipulated.
This was contained in a
preliminary objection filed by his group of lawyers in response to Atiku’s
petition.
President Buhari also faulted the
petitioners’ allegations of vote manipulation made against some security
personnel, some named private individuals and organisations, without making
them parties to the petition.
Buhari asked the Tribunal to
throw aside Atiku, PDP’s petition on the grounds that the reliefs sought by the
petitioners were frivolous.
He added that “The entire reliefs
are not justifiable, as the petitioners, who claim to have scored majority of
lawful votes insubstantial number of states, are also questioning their own
return in those states.
“The petitioners cannot act as
petitioners and respondents in the same petition.
“The alternative relief sought is
self-defeating, apart from being frivolous.
“The election to the office of
President on 23rd February, 2019, was conducted in substantial compliance with
the provision of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended),” he said.
Buhari, challenged the
petitioners to produce “specifics of website: www.factsdontlien .com, including
its domain owner, proprietor, lessee, lessor; etc., pleaded in paragraph 29 of
the petition.
“Details of the electronic data
on the servers of the 1st respondent (INEC), including the time, the details
were downloaded, the person who downloaded them and the means of downloading
(paragraph 29 of the petition).
“The documents from the 1st
respondent, publishing the registered voters in Nigeria, as 84, 004, 084 and
the number of PVCs collected as 72,775,502 (paragraph 30 of the petition).
“Details and documents, showing a
breakdown of the electronically collated votes of 664, 659, allegedly cast for
the petitioners in Abia State (paragraph 34 of the petition).
“Documents showing the published
registered voters in Bauchi State, as pleaded in paragraph 41 of the petition.
“Details of the electronically
collated 332,618 votes in Bayelsa State (paragraph 42).
“Documents showing how
petitioners’ votes were depleted by 173,153, in Benue State (paragraph 44).
“Details of how petitioners’
votes were depleted by 210,109 in Borno State (paragraph 46 of the petition).”
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