The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, her presidential candidate in the just concluded 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, have filed 43-paged final written addresses at the presidential election tribunal.
Atiku, his party, explained in the addresses that they were robbed of victory in the February 23 election in a total of eleven states.
According to them, the states are Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano. Others are Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Yobe, and Zamfara.
Atiku and PDP through their lead counsel, Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), alleged that a more realistic computation of the election results would give them the margin of a lead of 222,332 votes.
The petitioners are contending that the correct computation showed that they scored 9,426,082 votes against Buhari’s 9,203,750, Punch Reports.
They are by their position challenging the election of Muhammadu as President.
They also all that the president is not qualified to contest any election giving his lack of necessary certificates that will enable him to do so.
Petitioners Final Written Address in Reply to the 2nd Respondents FInal Written Address (1)
According to them: “These reports (P90-K) are unchallenged and remained so as none of the respondents controverted the detailed analysis of unlawful votes extracted from Exhibits PNG1 – PNG3464, PYB1731, PKT1 PKT3377; PKB1 – PKB2105; PB01 – PB03471; PJG1 – PJG 3161; PGB1 – PGB 1911; PBC1 – PBC3598; PKD1 – PKD3334; PKN1 – PKN7159 and PZF1 – PZF 1000 as summarised hereunder.”
They also contended that there were some “polling units where Forms EC8A were altered or tampered with to reflect new votes/scores.”
Adding that: “It is submitted that when the votes credited to the parties on account of various errors listed in paragraph 4.54(a) – (f) and (a) – (d), respectively, above are deducted from the results declared in the 11 focal states, the under listed figures now represent the overall lawful votes cast in the presidential election held on February 23, 2019 across Nigeria:
“Election result: PDP – 11, 262,978; APC – 15,191,847. Void votes: PDP – 1,836,896; APC -5,988,097. New result: PDP – 9,426,082; APC -9,203,750.”
