Disappointed with the lead of the 2023 general decisions, no less than 10 of the 18 ideological groups have documented 431 petitions at the different political race courts in 27 conditions of the country to suppress the triumphs of those the Autonomous Public Constituent Commission, INEC, pronounced champs.
There are five petitions against the announcement of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Reformists Congress, APC, as president-elect. This brings the speculative figure of petitions, as indicated by Vanguard’s checks to 436. If the numbers from the remaining nine states are added together, the total will be higher.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is among those attempting to overturn Tinubu’s victory. Mr. Peter Obi of the Work, LP; and Action Alliance (AA) candidates; APM, or Allied People’s Movement; and APP, Action People’s Party.
Across the states, there are also petitions protesting the results of some governorship, Senate, House, and state assembly elections.
Aside from the five gatherings kicking against the aftereffect of the official political race, different gatherings at the councils incorporate the APC; SDP, the Social Democratic Party; NNPP, or New Nigeria People’s Party; Grand Alliance of Progressives, or APGA; likewise the Young Progressive Party, or YPP.
After the supplementary elections on April 15 for two governorship, five senatorial, 31 House of Representatives, and 57 state assembly seats, the number of petitions may increase further.
431 petitions in 27 states
Across the states, the count of petitions are Abia (35), Anambra (31), Ebonyi (2), Enugu (14), Akwa Ibom (15), Bayelsa (9), Cross Waterway (13), Delta (25), Edo (14), Streams (34), Lagos (30), Ekiti (4), Ogun (18), Ondo (9), Osun (14) and Oyo (20).
Benue (17), Niger (11), Kogi (2), Plateau (16), Adamawa (8), Bauchi (15), Gombe (3), Taraba (7), Yobe (3), Kaduna (18), Katsina (11), Kano (23) and Kebbi (8), among others, are among the other states.
A source within the INEC stated yesterday that the 2023 exercises were the best since 1999, referring to the controversies surrounding the general elections in that year.
When three parties – Alliance for Democracy, AD; – filed petitions in 1999, there was no record of the number of APP, the All People’s Party; and the PDP ran in the elections. The Promotion and Application handled a joint Official Competitor, Boss Olu Falae against PDP’s Boss Olusegun Obasanjo and Falae didn’t challenge Obasanjo’s triumph at the court.
However, in 2003, there were 564 petitions for the subsequent elections; 1,291 in 2007; 732 in 2011; 807 in 2019 versus 611 in 2015.
The source said: ” With the innovations it introduced, such as the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) and e-transmission of election results, the INEC reduced post-election litigation to half of what it was in 2019. It is extremely miserable that the commission experienced misfires in the transmission of the official political race brings about ongoing from the surveying units “The 2023 general decisions are like no other. We’ve never seen anything like this year’s upheaval. Governors and political titans lost elections that they shouldn’t have lost. The voter’s list was not inflated or padded, and BVAS made sure that no votes were cast.
The number of post-election lawsuits demonstrates how credible the elections were in comparison to previous elections. In 2023, there are approximately 400 post-election petitions. There were 807 post-election lawsuits in 2019. In organizing primaries, the complaining parties performed worse than INEC. In comparison to 370 pre-election lawsuits in 2019, there were 1,370 in 2023.
Election petitions from 1999–no information; 2003 – 574; 2007-1291; 2011-732; 2015-611; and 2019-807 We’re sure to win—Atiku’s assistant When contacted, Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant, Public Communications to PDP Presidential Candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, stated that the party is hopeful about winning at the tribunal.
Shaibu stated, We have high hopes.”
Osuntokun also stated that the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council’s Director-General, Chief Akin Osuntokun, said his party has watertight petitions to win at various tribunals.
He stated, ” I don’t see how hundreds of petitions can be used as evidence of credibility; I consider it to be a wound rationale. In fact, it ought to be the other way around. Are you saying that someone is being accused of theft by 400 people? How can 400 complaints about an election be considered evidence of credibility? The exact opposite is true.
“Regardless, we have a watertight request, the proof is excessively prominent. We have that kind of faith in ourselves.
We have proof of their announced results against their servers; There is nothing anyone can say about that.