The Presidential candidate of the Individuals’s Democratic Occasion PDP within the final election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku on Friday advised the Presidential Election Petition Court docket that the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee INEC is a meddlesome interloper in its defence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the {qualifications} for the election.
Atiku particularly accused the electoral physique of being busy physique and fishing in one other particular person’s troubled water.
INEC by means of its counsel at Friday’s proceedings, Mr Kemi Pinhero SAN had moved a movement on discover praying the Court docket to strike out a few of the allegations made towards Tinubu by Atiku in his petition.
The electoral physique pleaded with the Court docket to strike out 32 allegations made towards Tinubu by Atiku within the petition difficult the declaration of Tinubu because the winner of the February 25 Presidential election.
INEC mentioned that the allegations which shaped 32 paragraphs within the Atiku’s petition must be discontenced by the Court docket for numerous causes comprising lack of jurisdiction.
However Atiku by means of his lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche SAN filed counter affidavit in opposition to INEC’S request and requested the Court docket to dismiss the electoral physique’s place.
Uche argued within the counter affidavit that it was not the obligation of INEC to do the battle or argue the case of Tinubu who’s 2nd defendant within the petition.
Particularly, Atiku’s lead counsel insisted that INEC should be impartial however somersaulted by turning itself to busy physique and meddlesome interloper by taking on the protection of Tinubu towards the provisions of the legislation.
He due to this fact requested the Court docket to dismiss INEC’S movement for being gross abuse of courtroom course of, missing in advantage and grossly incompetent.
In the meantime, the Chairman of the Court docket, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani has mounted ruling until the date of judgment within the substantive petition.
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