“The provisions of the present electoral regulation have been utterly contravened,” mentioned Abubakar. “This protest goes to proceed for a really very long time, both every single day or each different day.”
At the very least 5 political events are difficult final month’s vote, alleging that delays in importing outcomes from the nation’s 177,000 polling stations to the electoral physique’s portal might have allowed vote tampering. In addition they allege there was voter intimidation and instances the place individuals have been barred from voting in any respect.
Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress gained the election with 37% of the votes turning into Nigeria’s first presidential candidate to win with lower than half of the overall votes.
In Nigeria, an election may be invalidated provided that it’s confirmed that the nationwide electoral physique largely didn’t observe the regulation and acted in ways in which might have modified the end result. None of Nigeria’s presidential election outcomes has ever been overturned by the nation’s Supreme Courtroom.
Some observers have additionally criticized the conduct of the presidential election. The U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, mentioned the election course of failed to fulfill Nigerians’ expectations after years of enchancment within the high quality of the elections.
“We thus reiterate our name on (the electoral fee) to deal with promptly the challenges that may be resolved forward of the March 11 gubernatorial elections,” she mentioned in an announcement Sunday.
A neighborhood courtroom on Friday granted each Atiku and third-place finisher Peter Obi permission to examine the election supplies used within the vote as a part of their courtroom problem.
The 2 opposition events will within the coming weeks collect proof to construct their instances in separate functions disputing the election outcomes, a course of that took almost seven months in 2019 when the courts rejected an analogous problem to the outcomes.