The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the 2019
election, Atiku Abubakar, have filed their final written addresses in
which they explained how they were allegedly robbed of victory in the
February 23, 2019 presidential election through wrongful computation in
11 states.
The states, according to them, are Bauchi, Borno,
Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Yobe, and Zamfara.
The petitioners stated through their lawyer, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN),
that a correct computation of the results would give them a margin of
lead of 222,332 votes over President Buhari and his All Progressives
Congress.
They stated this in their response to Buhari’s final
address, contending that the correct computation showed that they scored
9,426,082 votes against Buhari’s 9,203,750. They claimed that reports
tendered by a statistician, who was called as one of their witnesses
pointing out faults in the result declared by the Independent National
Electoral Commission, was not challenged by the respondents to their
petition.
The petitioners said, “These reports (P90-K) are
unchallenged and remained so as none of the respondents controverted the
detailed analysis of unlawful votes extracted from Exhibits PNG1 –
PNG3464, PYB1731, PKT1 PKT3377; PKB1 – PKB2105; PB01 – PB03471; PJG1 –
PJG 3161; PGB1 – PGB 1911; PBC1 – PBC3598; PKD1 – PKD3334; PKN1 –
PKN7159 and PZF1 – PZF 1000 as summarised hereunder.”
The
petitioners also contended that there were “polling units where Forms
EC8A were altered or tampered with to reflect new votes/scores.” They
added that on Forms EC8B (ward result sheets), the similar errors were
also observed, adding that there were discrepancies in the collated
figures on Forms EC8A and the Forms EC8B.
They stated, “It is
submitted that when the votes credited to the parties on account of
various errors listed in paragraph 4.54(a) – (f) and (a) – (d),
respectively, above are deducted from the results declared in the 11
focal states, the under listed figures now represent the overall lawful
votes cast in the presidential election held on February 23, 2019 across
Nigeria:
“Election result: PDP – 11, 262,978; APC – 15,191,847.
Void votes: PDP – 1,836,896; APC -5,988,097. New result: PDP –
9,426,082; APC -9,203,750.”
Atiku and his party had by their
petition urged the five-man tribunal led by Justice Mohammed Garba to
declare them the winner of the February 23, 2019 poll or nullify
Buhari’s election. In their final address filed in response to
Buhari’s, the petitioners raised five issues for determination,
including that Buhari was neither duly elected by the majority of lawful
votes nor qualified to contest as of the time of the election.
The
respondents had earlier, through their lawyers, filed their respective
final addresses. The tribunal had fixed August 21 for adoption of the
final addresses by the parties.
{Naijafinix.com}
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