Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has claimed that it will be unconstitutional for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu to be sworn in on May 29. LEGIT NEWS reports.
Speaking on Channels TV on Wednesday, March 22, the LP vice presidential candidate alleged that Tinubu failed to satisfy the requirements of Section 134 (2)(a) and (b) of the constitution for election to the office of the President.Information Guide Nigeria
The provisions of the section of the constitution cited by Baba-Ahmed indicate that the rightful winner is one who “has the highest number of votes cast at the election” and “has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja”.NYSC Portal
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The LP vice presidential candidate claimed Tinubu did not meet the requirements, according to his own interpretation of the provisions.
Speaking further, Baba-Ahmed urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, not to go ahead with Tinubu’s inauguration, arguing that it would be unconstitutional to do so.
“Mr. President, do not hold that inauguration. CJN, Your Lordship, do not partake in unconstitutionality,” he said.
He accused the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of putting Nigerians’ lives in danger by declaring Tinubu the winner and issuing the certificate of return.JAMB Result