{"id":103416,"date":"2023-03-03T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103416"},"modified":"2023-03-03T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:15:46","slug":"breaking-6-pdp-states-ask-supreme-court-to-declare-inecs-pronouncement-on-presidential-poll-null","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-6-pdp-states-ask-supreme-court-to-declare-inecs-pronouncement-on-presidential-poll-null\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 6 PDP States ask Supreme Court to declare INEC\u2019s pronouncement on presidential poll null"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The controversy surrounding the conduct of the February 25 presidential election deepened on Friday with six States controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asking the Supreme Court to declare the pronouncement of the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) null and void.<\/p>\n<p>INEC declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of the poll.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBut the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, who came second and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came third, have rejected the result as declared by INEC and vowed to challenge the result in court.<\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, six states, according to a report, headed to the Supreme Court, asking the country\u2019s apex court to declare INEC\u2019s pronouncement on the poll null and void.<\/p>\n<p>Though details of the legal challenge are still sketchy, the states \u2013 Bayelsa, Sokoto, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo and Adamawa \u2013 are insisting the umpire flagrantly threw overboard the 2022 Electoral Act and its own guidelines in conducting the presidential election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy surrounding the conduct of the February 25 presidential election deepened on Friday with six States controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asking the Supreme Court to declare&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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