INEC INSISTS ON NO CASE FOR LABOUR PARTY AT TRIBUNAL

Under fire from the barrage of criticisms trailing the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appeared before the court to defend the presidential poll that produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as president-elect and vice president-elect respectively.

Accordingly, the commission prayed the presidential election petitions tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to dismiss a petition filed by Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying the reliefs sought are not grantable, insisting that the elections which produced the President-elect was credible.

You will recall that INEC yesterday replied the Action Peoples Party (APP) before the Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja, dismissing the party’s argument that results collation were to be done electronically, citing paragraphs 50 to 55 of the regulations and guidelines for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election.

Also, the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed last week indicated that INEC had deliberately refused to upload results to the iREV portal in order to ward off cyber attacks.