INEC CHAIRMAN,Mohamood Yakubu
No fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission to defend the outcomes of the February 25 presidential election
The. team, in accordance to City Lawyer, is to be led by former Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu (SAN)
It. was gathered from a member of the legal team that 4 SANs who are staff members of INEC’s legal department are also members of the team alongside Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi
INEC. budgeted over N3bn to defend the outcomes of the February 25 presidential and national meeting elections and the March 18 governorship and state meeting polls
The. Media Talk Africa stories that several candidates who lost in the elections have filed petitions at the presidential and state election petition tribunals to problem the outcome of the polls
So. far, over a hundred election petitions have been filed by aggrieved candidates and their events throughout the country
The. presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party, Peter Obi; the Action Alliance, Solomon Okangbuan; Allied Peoples Movement, Chichi Ojei, have also filed petitions for the nullification of the presidential election results
The. fee had on March 1, 2023, declared Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
