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The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, his running mate, Kashim Shettima, have filed a suit to block any move aimed at stopping the collation and announcement of the presidential election.
The Cable reported that they sued the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Federal High Court in Kano.
The presidential candidates of both PDP and the Labour Party are trailing in the results of the election held on Saturday that INEC has announced so far.
The agents of the parties, on Monday, staged a walk-out from the venue of the National Collation Centre, Abuja, over the refusal of the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to address their complaints about the validity of the results that came from Ekiti and Kwara states. The APC won both states.
On Tuesday, the two opposition parties and their vice presidential candidates, at a joint press conference, in Abuja, called for the stopping of the collation of the results of the election and resignation of the INEC chair.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who had earlier endorsed Mr Obi as his preferred candidate, alleged fraud in the election and called for the cancellation of the results in places where the election had been conducted without compliance with the law.
But in their suit suit marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023, Mr Tinubu, his running mate, Mr Shettima, urged the court to restrain the defendants from stopping the collation.
The plaintiffs said in an affidavit filed in an application for an interim order that “neither the defendants nor any other person has the power to stop the process of announcing the result of the election as collated from various polling units”…
