Results collation: Tinubu approaches court to stop LP, PDP moves
The All Progressives
Congress and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday,
commenced a legal battle to prevent moves by opposition parties to halt the
ongoing collation of Saturday’s presidential election results.
The candidate and his
party filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic
Party preventing the continuous announcement and collation of results of the
poll.
The suit was marked
FHC/KN/CS/43/2023 and filed before the Federal High Court in Kano.
The Action Alliance and
the Independent National Electoral Commission were joined as defendants while
the APC vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, was also listed as a
plaintiff.
According to DailyTrust, the plaintiffs in a motion on notice filed alongside the originating
summons asked the court to make the order restraining the defendants from
stopping the collation and announcement of the results.
They argued that
“damages will not adequately compensate for the injury that may be occasioned
on the Plaintiffs if by the Defendants stop the collation of the result.”
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