By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA—The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed the petition the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, and its candidate, Chief Ambrose Owuru, filed to nullify the outcome of the February 23 presidential election and remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office.
HDP, in the petition marked CA/PEPC/001/2019, contended that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed to follow condition precedents stipulated in the Electoral Act, when it unduly postponed the presidential election that was originally fixed for February 16.
The party claimed that its candidate, Owuru, secured over 50million votes in a referendum that was conducted by both electorates and observer networks that were dissatisfied with the unilateral postponement of the presidential election by INEC.
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It therefore urged the tribunal to uphold the outcome of the…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
