BROKEN TRUST ….
THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA HAS COME AND GONE, BUT NOT WITHOUT GOING DOWN IN HISTORY FOR BEING THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY ELECTIONS IN RECENT TIME.
THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA HAS COME AND GONE, BUT NOT
WITHOUT GOING DOWN IN HISTORY FOR BEING THE MOST
EXTRAORDINARY ELECTIONS IN RECENT TIME. FROM THE HEATED PRE ELECTION
CAMPAIGNS, TO THE ELECTION DAY DRAMAS, THE VIOLENCE, ENTHUSIASM FROM
THE YOUTHS, TO THE TENSION THAT CAME WITH THE RESULT COMPILATION, AND
THE DECLARATION OF THE WINNERS BY THE ELECTION UMPIRE, WHICH HAS NOT
BEEN WITHOUT CRITICISMS.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT SENATOR BOLA AHMED TINUBU, WHO WITH A TOTAL
NUMBER OF 8, 794, 726 DEFEATED HIS CLOSEST RIVAL, ATIKU ABUBAKAR,
CANDIDATE OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) WHO
SCORED 6,984, 520 AND PETER OBI, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE
LABOUR PARTY (LP) WHO GARNERED, 6,101,533 WHILE RABIU KWANKWASO OF NEW
NIGERIAN PEOPLES PARTY (NNPP) GOT 1,496,687.
TINUBU WAS DECLARED WINNER WITH A SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTES REQUIREMENT BY
INEC AFTER OVER 72 HOURS OF RESULT COLLATION. THE CLOSELY FOUGHT
VICTORY ATTRACTED KNOCKS FROM INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS, VARIOUS LEGAL
DEBATE, ESPECIALLY AROUND SECTION 133 (B) OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION
(AS AMENDED), THAT PLACES A HEAVY TASK ON A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE,
DEMANDING THAT NOT ONLY WOULD HE HAVE MORE VOTES, BUT HE WILL ALSO
HAVE TO HAVE AT LEAST 2 3rd votes OF ALL THE VOTES CAST
IN ALL THE STATES OF THE FEDERATION AND THE FCT.
THIS CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION HAS COME UNDER IMMENSE SCRUTINY, DUE TO
THE HEATED NATURE OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF PDP ATIKU ABUBAKAR AND LABOUR PARTY, PETER
OBI, HAS SINCE REJECTED THE RESULTS AND HAS VOWED TO PROVE TO THE
COURT HOW THEY WON THE ELECTION AS ACCUSATIONS OF IRREGULARITIES TRAIL THE POLLS.
The Court of Appeal RECENTLY granted leave to BOTH CANDIDATES to
inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 25 presidential
election AND HAVE ALSO GRANTED INEC LEAVE TO reconfigure BVAS
However, many Nigerians have expressed concern on what the
reconfiguration of the machine could mean for the outcome of both the
present and past elections because of its major role in transmission
of election result
