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PEPC admits EU’s Election Report against INEC, Tinubu

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Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission in Nigeria which faulted the conduct of the February 25 presidential election.

A five-member panel of the court presided by Haruna Tsammani admitted the document yesterday after it was tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Lawyers to President Bola Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Lateef Fagbemi, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud objected to the admissibility of the document.

The EU mission had in its report claimed the presidential election did not show credibility, fairness and transparency in its conduct by INEC with only 31 percent of the results uploaded on IREV.

 

Daily Trust

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