The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress has said they will go to court to challenge the results scored by the presidential candidate of the PDP, and LP at the just concluded election.
This is coming after Atiku of the PDP and Obi of the LP who came second and third respectively in the last Saturday’s presidential election have resolved to challenge tinubu’s victory in the court over alleged irregularities.
Festus Keyamo, the chief spokesperson of the APC presidential campaign council at a press conference in Abuja said they were going to file a counter-petition against the opposition parties in a fight-back manner.
Keyamo said the votes scored by the opposition candidates, particularly LP’s Obi were fraudulently obtained as evidenced by the electoral malpractices perpetrated in the Southeast.
He said: “As I am talking to you, we have constituted our legal team. We are going to court too. Let it not be that they are the only ones going to court. I am part of the legal team.”
Also speaking is the special adviser, media, and communications of the presidential campaign council, Dele Alake urged Atiku and Obi to follow their resentments with politeness.
He said the complaints by the candidates of the two opposition parties over the electronic transmission of the election result are not supported by law.
Alake, said the claim that INEC did not use the BVAs is false, adding that those who voted across Nigeria, including Atiku and Obi, were accredited by the machines.
“We must say, however, that listening to both Atiku and Obi yesterday, (Thursday) left us in the APC family confounded. We understand that there has been an orchestrated campaign by the acolytes of PDP and LP in the media to discredit the Presidential election.
“What we did not expect is that the two presidential candidates and, indeed, their political parties, would shamefully re-echo the puerile and unimaginative arguments that are being canvassed by political illiterates and mischief-makers who are crying wolf on social media.
“As we can see, these two, otherwise experienced politicians are pinpointing a lack of adherence to guidelines as a basis for discrediting votes lawfully cast by Nigerians.
“We shall examine the so-called process that was purportedly breached by the electoral body and how, in their wild imagination, undermined the credibility of the election.
“The complaint over the electronic transmission of the result is not supported by law. Section 38 of the Electoral Act 2022 referred to, by the PDP and LP has nothing to do with the transmission of election results.
“Section 60, subsection 2 of the Act deals with the transmission of results and it is at the discretion of INEC. The Act does not contain any mandatory provision regarding the transmission of results.
“In any case, the process of transmitting results from polling units, whether real-time, two days later, or at any time, cannot in any way change the results that have been announced, right after the counting in the presence of the parties’ agents and to the hearing of the voters.
“It is, therefore, nonsensical to insinuate that time variation in uploading results would cause a change in the figures.
“The loss of Katsina and Lagos to PDP and LP respectively were contrary to expectations. BIVAS brought the intended credibility to voters’ accreditation such that many governors and well-established politicians lost elections in what should be safe areas.
“The era of ghost-voting and snatching of ballot boxes is gone. Experience in the last governorship election in Osun State has shown, over-voting would automatically lead to outright cancellation of results of polling units based on the provision of the new Electoral Act,” he stated.
