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President Muhammadu Buhari has questioned the powers of the tribunal to nullify his election victory at the poll, contending that the joint petition Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) entered against him was incompetent as it was based on conjectures.
The President also insisted that the reliefs that the petitioners are seeking from the tribunal were “vague, nebulous and lacking in specificity.”
Buhari argued that most of the issues and grounds of the petition were not only “mutually exclusive”, but also outside the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
The President contended that by virtue of section 31(5) and (6) of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended, only the Federal High Court or High Court of a State has jurisdiction to adjudicate on some the issues, among which included the allegation that he was bereft of the requisite educational qualification.
More so, Buhari argued that the alternative relief in the petition seeking a fresh election, was inconsistent with relief 409(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of the same petition, saying, “thus, all the reliefs in the petition are liable to be struck out.
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