{"id":262330,"date":"2023-04-14T04:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=262330"},"modified":"2023-04-14T04:43:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:43:17","slug":"presidential-election-tinubu-doesnt-need-25-in-abuja-to-be-declared-winner-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/04\/14\/presidential-election-tinubu-doesnt-need-25-in-abuja-to-be-declared-winner-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election: Tinubu doesn’t need 25% in Abuja to be declared winner \u2013 INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it declaration of Bola Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election was perfectly within the ambit of the constitution. <\/p>\n

The election umpire<\/a> told the presidential election petitions tribunal that President-elect Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress did not need to get 25 per cent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n

According to NAN, Tinubu won the February 25 election and was validly returned as the winner. <\/p>\n

INEC stated this in its reply by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, before the tribunal.<\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s electoral umpire said the APC candidate met all the legal requirements to be so announced as the winner of the election, arguing that a candidate must not secure 25 per cent votes in the FCT to be declared winner because the FCT was not accorded any special status in the constitution as being \u201cerroneously\u201d portrayed by some political parties and candidates who lost the election.<\/p>\n

On why it returned Tinubu as the winner, INEC said the APC candidate scored 25 per cent of the valid votes cast in 29 states of the federation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving scored at least one-quarter of the valid votes cast in 29 states, which is over and above the 2\/3 states threshold required by the constitution, in addition to scoring the majority of the lawful votes cast at the election, the second respondent was properly declared winner and returned as the president-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d INEC explained, adding that Mr Tinubu, having scored 25 per cent of the valid votes cast in the 29 states, \u201chas satisfied the requirement of the constitution to be declared winner of the presidential election, thus rendering the requirement of having 25 per cent of the valid votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also argued that the declaration and return of Mr Tinubu were not wrongful and were made in accordance with the provisions of section 134 (2) (b) of the Constitution, having scored one-quarter (25 per cent) of the valid votes cast in 29 states which is beyond the constitutional threshold for such declaration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first respondent denies that scoring 25 per cent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory is a condition precedent to the declaration and return of a candidate in the presidential election,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

INEC added that by the margin of lead, it did not act hastily, as claimed by Mr Abubakar and the PDP in declaring Mr Tinubu, the winner of the election.<\/p>\n

It stressed that Mr Tinubu scored 25 per cent of the valid votes cast in 29 states of the federation (Ekiti, Kwara, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Yobe, Lagos, Gombe, Adamawa, Katsina, Jigawa, Nasarawa, Niger, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Kogi, Bauchi, Plateau, Bayelsa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto, Taraba, Borno and Rivers).<\/p>\n

While faulting Mr Abubakar and his party\u2019s claim on the status of the FCT, INEC argued that \u201cthe provisions of the constitution apply to the FCT as if it were one of the states of the federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commission also argued that the use of the word \u201cand\u201d in section 134 (2) of the Constitution indicates nothing more than that in construing two-thirds of the states of the federation in which a candidate is required to score one-quarter of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

It argued that by the constitution\u2019s provision, the FCT \u201chas the status of a state and ought to be recognised as if it was a state of the federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

It added that the FCT, beyond being the country\u2019s capital, \u201chas no special constitutional status over and above the other 36 states of the federation to require a candidate in the presidential election to obtain at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in the FCT before being declared winner of the presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n

INEC pointed out that the Federal Capital Territory \u201cis regarded as the 37 states of the federation, and as such, a candidate needs to score 25 per cent of the valid votes cast in at least two-thirds of 37 states ( to be declared as winner in the presidential election).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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