{"id":702777,"date":"2019-09-10T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/presidential-election-tribunal-judgment-to-be-delivered-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:04:27","slug":"presidential-election-tribunal-judgment-to-be-delivered-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/presidential-election-tribunal-judgment-to-be-delivered-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Election Tribunal Judgment To Be Delivered Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Presidential election petitions tribunal has scheduled Wednesday, 11th of September as the day to rule on the case between Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and President Muhammadu Buhari ( APC).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_693860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693860\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693860\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Atiku-and-Buhari.jpg\" alt=\"President Buhari and Atiku\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-693860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Buhari and Atiku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the lead counsel of INEC,\u00a0 Yunus Ustaz Usman (SAN)\u00a0 the electoral body worked in \u201ctotal compliance with the Electoral Act and the petitioners can never dislodge that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Buhari Failed To Defend Himself Before Presidential Election Tribunal: PDP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus, he requested that the tribunal \u201cto dismiss the petition which was meant to test the river with both legs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Also, lead counsel to President Buhari, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition for lacking in evidence, adding that Section 131 of the Nigerian Constitution did not demand certificate to be attached to the documents.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel to the APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) said the PDP and Atiku, who alleged electoral irregularities in 119,973 polling units in 8,809 wards in 774 LGs, called only 62 witnesses out of which only five led evidence from the polling units.<\/p>\n<p>However, lead counsel to the PDP and Atiku, Levy Uzoukwu (SAN), asked the tribunal to hold that Section 138(1) of Electoral Act, any candidate who submitted false information would nullify their candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>He added that by the judgment of the Supreme Court in Abdulrauf Moddibbo against Mustapha Usman SC\/790\/2019 delivered on 30 July, qualifications for election is not a pre-election matter.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Buhari in his Form CF001submitted to INEC listed three certificates such as First School Leaving Certificate, WAEC, and Cadet certificate from Military School but failed to attach them to the form.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential election petitions tribunal has scheduled Wednesday, 11th of September as the day to rule on the case between Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and President Muhammadu Buhari ( APC). President Buhari and Atiku According to the lead counsel of INEC,\u00a0 Yunus Ustaz Usman (SAN)\u00a0 the electoral body worked in \u201ctotal compliance with the Electoral Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidential Election Tribunal Judgment To Be Delivered Wednesday - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/presidential-election-tribunal-judgment-to-be-delivered-wednesday\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Presidential Election Tribunal Judgment To Be Delivered Wednesday - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Presidential election petitions tribunal has scheduled Wednesday, 11th of September as the day to rule on the case between Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and President Muhammadu Buhari ( APC). 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