INEC appoints former NBA president, 8 other SANS to defend election results

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abubakar Mahmoud, is expected to lead a team of lawyers including 8 other Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the result of the February 25 Presidential election.

Other members of the legal team include Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu (SAN)

Also, four other senior advocates who are staff of INEC’s legal department will join the team alongside Messrs Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi.

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INEC had on March 1, 2023, declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the presidential election having scored the highest number of votes cast.

However different political parties and candidates have gone ahead to challenge the result announced by the electoral umpire.

Prominent among those challenging the result are the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi who came second and third respectively.

Apart from the presidential election, INEC also faces series of litigations from the March 18 governorship election.

So far, over 100 election petitions have been filed by aggrieved candidates and their parties across the country.