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By Our Reporter
The Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja has declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was at liberty to decide the mode of transmission of election results in the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani made the declaration on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, while delivering judgement in the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Justice Tsammani said according to Sections 52 and 65 of the Electoral Act 2022, INEC was at liberty to prescribe the manner in which election results were transmitted during the poll.
The judge, therefore, dismissed the petition of the Labour Party and Obi, which argued that the victory of President Tinubu be annulled on the basis of INEC’s failure to upload election results electronically in real time.
Justice Tsammani also dismissed Obi and LP’s petitions on 25 per cent votes of Tinubu in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying Abuja is like other states.
