The presidential election petition tribunal ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can choose how to transmit election results.
Haruna Tsammani, the tribunal’s chairman, cited January 23, 2023, judgement of a federal high court in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1454/2022 on Wednesday.
Tsammani stated that the judgement stands because the Labour Party (LP) did not file an appeal.
He also ruled that Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, could not prove that INEC purposefully failed to upload results to the IReV in order to manipulate the election result in favour of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February polls.
Tsammani went on to say that the petitioners failed to demonstrate how they were harmed by the failure of INEC to electronically transmit the results.
“The petitioners have failed to prove substantial non-compliance with the provision of the Electoral Act,” he said.
The LP and its candidate had approached the tribunal to challenge Tinubu’s victory, citing INEC’s delay in electronically transmitting results, among other issues.