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He said it would, therefore, be wrong for the apex court to admit a fresh evidence at the stage of appeal, adding that Atiku ought to have joined the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as an interested party in the US proceedings.
The military, through an extraordinary gazette notice, has been ordered to remain on alert across Sri Lanka. President Ranil Wickremesighe issued the gazette notice under the Public Security Ordinance, with effect from 22nd October. The gazette has been renewed every month giving the military
The supreme court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Atiku Abubakar challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu....
While INEC, through its lawyer, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, urged the court to reject Atiku’s plea to be allowed to tender the CSU certificate, insisting that the time allowed for hearing of the petition had expired.
Atiku told the apex court that some of the presiding officers that personally handled the BVAS machines at polling units on the election day, had in their testimony before the PEPC, “confirmed the non-transmission of results of the presidential election electronically from the BVAS machines, whereas results of the National Assembly election that held simultaneously, were electronically transmitted without difficulty.