Transmission Of Election Results Not Mandatory By Any Law – PEPC

The transmission of result sheets to IReV during the February 25 Presidential Election, has been dismissed as not Mandatory by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT

Delivering judgement on the contentious issue for which reason opposition political parties and their candidates asked for the upturning of President Bola Tinubu’s victory as declared by the  Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  Justice Haruna Tsammani said the transmission of electoral results to IReV was not mandatory.

The Judge emphasized that there is no law which says that the transmission of electoral results from polling units  is mandatory.

Tsammani’s ruling was on the petition by the Labour Party, LP, on the implication of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s failure to upload the photographic election result sheets to IReV.

Said Tsammani: “There is no law that says INEC must mandatorily transfer or transmit the results of the election from the polling units electronically.”

He posited that the law empowers INEC to decide the means of collation of the results of elections in Nigeria which it did.