“Trader-Moni Was A Vote Buying Scheme,” Atiku Substantiates Claims At Election Tribunal
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have insisted that the Trader-Moni policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was a vote-buying scheme that lacked budgetary backing. Atiku and his party described the policy as “illegal and corrupt extra-budgetary spending.” They stated this in their reply to the response by Buhari to their petition filed before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the outcome of the February 23 election. Alleging manipulations and corruption in the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Buhari and his All Progressives Congress as the
Just In: Appeal Court President Disbands Ogun Tribunal
President, Nigerian Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has disbanded the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Chinwe Onyeabo. A source closed to the tribunal told Sunday INDEPENDENT that an internal memo had been addressed to Justice Onyeabo and two other members of the Tribunal; Justice D. A. Onyigbenu and Justice (Khadi) M.L. Omar, informing them to leave Ogun State for another assignment. It was further gathered that one Justice Josephine Coker from Lagos Division would now head the newly constituted three man panel which included Justice Kabir Dabo who is a member of the National
No results on server, Atiku’s figures are false – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission has distanced itself from the “server results” which the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are laying claim to as the “true results” of the February 23 election. INEC said this in its reply to the petition filed before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal by the PDP and Atiku to challenge the outcome of the February 23 election The commission, through its lead counsel, Yunus Usman (SAN), said the results of the poll were never transmitted or collated electronically. It added that it kept no such server where such electronically transmitted
