PEPT: Rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong questions particular ruling against Obi, Atiku

Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong has questioned the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal ruling on the transmission of election results from polling units to IREV.

In its ruling in one of the petitions brought before it by the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidates, Atiku Abubakar, the Tribunal had said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is not bound to electronically transmit results to the IREV.

DAILY POST reports that the tribunal had struck out petitions by both candidates, saying that they failed to provide evidence strong enough to remove Bola Ahmed Tinubu from office as the President of Nigeria.

And reacting to this particular ruling, Effiong wrote on X, “If INEC is not bound to electronically transmit election results to the IREV, how then will results be transferred directly from the polling unit as mandated by the Electoral Act?

“Can results be transferred manually directly from the polling unit?

“Note that delivery of physical copies of Form EC8A to the collation centre together with agents of political parties and security agencies is a separate requirement.”