The Presidential Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, stroke out the petition of Atiku Abubakar, alleging that results for the Feb. 23 presidential election were electronically transmitted, Igbere TV reports.
Igbere TV recalls that the former vice president and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had alleged that INEC deployed servers for the last general elections.
But delivering judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Garba, said the coalition of results for the national election were done manually, based on evidences.
The Tribunal also ruled that the petitioners failed to evidently prove their allegations that the third respondent (INEC) deployed its servers for the said elections.
“There is no provision by law that election results must be transmitted electronically or any other means, but manually”, Justice Garba said, adding that the argument was not known to the Electoral Act.
“At every stage of our national elections, there is nothing constitutionally or either by PW8 or by SCR… It must be manually collated at every stage of our national elections”, the Tribunal insisted.
Justice Garba added that evidence by Osita Chidoka, Atiku’s star witness, supported INEC’s position that the results were not transmitted electronically.
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