The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Adebayo folorunsho-francis, Dirisu Yakubu, Gift Habib and Nathaniel Shaibu has budgeted over N3bn to defend the results of the February 25 presidential and national assembly election and the March 18 governorship and state assembly polls.
According to the reporter several candidates who lost in the elections have filed petitions at the presidential and state election petition tribunals to challenge the outcome of the polls.
The Labour Party, Peter Obi The presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; the Action Alliance, Solomon Okangbuan; Allied People’s Movement, Chichi Ojei, have also filed petitions for the nullification of the presidential election results.
Also, election petition tribunals in over 12 states have equally received petitions from National Assembly candidates who are not satisfied with the results of the just concluded elections
The states where the petitions had been received included Edo, Plateau, Ondo, Kwara, Ogun, Bayelsa, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Bauchi, Lagos and Niger states.
However, over 100 election petitions have been filed by aggrieved candidates and their parties across the country.
March 1 INEC had
declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as
the
winner of the February 25 presidential election, but the five candidates
filed petitions seeking the nullification of the poll.
Speaking in a telephone conversation on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, urged the media to ‘rise and condemn the wastefulness of INEC.’’
He said, “Nigerians should ask INEC why they are spending so much to defend election cases. We have condemned the conduct of the 2023 general elections by INEC. The media should rise and condemn the wastefulness of INEC.
“How can an institution that spent over N300bn for BVAS use another N3bn for litigations? The expectation was that there would be no crisis of credibility after the deployment of BVAS
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