Tinubu says PDP, Atiku failed to address court on how to be returned winner; Atiku in court
President Bola Tinubu has told the presidential election petition court that the People’s Democratic Party and its presidential candidates have failed to address the court on whether they have scored or how he can be returned as the winner of the presidential election.
Adopting his final written address through his counsel Wole Olanipekun he noted that the constitution must be read conjunctively with the electoral act.
Section 134 of the electoral act says the candidate must have one-quarter of two third of the votes cast in the FCT, the section did not say must win.
The FCT is the 37 state for the purpose of the presidential election.
Recall on July 5, the court concluded the hearing of Atiku and Obi’s petitions.
The petitioner according to Tinubu dumped evidence before the court, and it is not the duty of the court to conduct investigations on their behalf.
This act by the petitioner amounted to a breach of section 36 of the constitution
Presidential elections are not set aside as a matter of cost.
He prayed the court to dismiss the petition as the petitioner have abandoned their petition.
Meanwhile, former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is at Abuja’s presidential election petition tribunal.
The tribunal is gearing up to examine the written addresses submitted in the two petitions that remain before it. Atiku and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, had separately filed petitions seeking to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the victor of the February 25 presidential election.