The authorities of six states denounce the results of the presidential elections in Nigeria before the Supreme Court

March 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The authorities of six Nigerian states have filed a complaint against the Government before the Supreme Court this Friday in relation to the alleged irregularities registered in the presidential elections of February 25, in which the pro-government candidate, Bola Tinubu, has prevailed.

The lawsuit has been filed by the states of Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto alleging that the recount “was not carried out in line with the mandatory clauses of the relevant sections of the Electoral Law, the rules of the electoral commission and the manual for officials of the electoral commission”.

Thus, they have stressed that the agency’s workers did not transmit the results after the recount for publication on the website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a complaint that has been transferred in recent days by several opposition candidates, according to Picked up the Nigerian newspaper ‘Punch’.

“The breach of due process has led to widespread unrest, violent protests, unrest and rejection among a wide spectrum of the Nigerian population, including international observers, political parties, well-to-do Nigerians and former Nigerian heads of state,” they argued.

In this way, they have maintained that the Government, through the INEC, “has powers by law to correct the elections due to technical failures and errors that arise from the holding of the elections”, before noting that the population “has the right to an adequate and legal electoral process that guarantees free, fair, transparent and credible elections”.

Opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labor Party announced on Thursday that they will appeal the results to the courts arguing that there have been irregularities. Both claim to have won, although INEC has declared Tinubu the winner.

In fact, the three main opposition parties in Nigeria on Tuesday demanded the rerun of the elections and maintained that the elections are “irreparably compromised” and denounced a manipulation of the results due to the delays in the publication of the minutes on the Internet.

The winner of the election will replace Muhammadu Buhari, who was unable to run because he has already served the term limit set by the Nigerian Constitution. The elections also mark the first time since the return of the country to civilian rule in 1999 in which none of the candidates is a former military leader, as was the case with Buhari, who led the country between December 1983 and August. 1985 after a coup.