Tinubu’s victory: Is 25% votes in FCT mandatory? Ex-INEC REC reveals strong position in trending video

• Inclined INEC commissioner in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini, has thrown more gentle on the controversial 25% of votes in the FCT mandated to assemble the presidential election
• Igini eminent that the 25% votes in FCT are compulsory and basic for a candidate to assemble the presidential election in accordance with the Nigerian constitution
• In the intervening time, INEC declared Bola Tinubu the winner of the February 25 presidential election no matter now not securing the 25% votes in the FCT
• This vogue has endured to generate heated debate in the polity, with some criticising the electoral physique

The stale resident electoral commissioner (REC) for the Independent Nationwide Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini, has stirred reactions on-line.

In a now-viral video, Igini was quoted asserting Nigeria’s constitution mandated a candidate to attain 25% of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) forward of being declared winner in the presidential poll.

25% votes in FCT is basic, Ex-INEC REC Igini says in a trending video

In the intervening time, the INEC’s declaration of Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as the winner of the February 25 poll, no matter failing to stable 25% votes in the FCT, has raised a collection of questions in the polity.

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However, in a video clip got by Nigerian Tribune Online, the stale INEC REC, at some level of an interview with Arise Tv, a few hours forward of the Saturday, February 25 presidential poll, acknowledged it’s a long way a “compulsory ask” for a candidate to have 25% votes in the FCT forward of being declared president-elect.

His phrases:

“As antagonistic to having 25% in 24 States (of the federation). The FCT is love a compulsory ask with out 25%, you hunch nowhere.”

Checklist of presidential candidates, events that want court to sack Bola Tinubu as president-elect

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, won the February 25 elections.

In response to the Independent Nationwide Electoral Commission, Tinubu polled 8.8 million votes to emerge the winner.

On the opposite hand, five of his contenders are inviting the result of the polls in court.

Is intervening time authorities constitutional? High Nigerian attorney explains

Earlier than the Monday, Might presumably 29 handover ceremony of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Nigerian attorney printed why the intervening time authorities keep must be regarded into critically.

In a chat with Legit.ng on Friday, April 14, Barrister Oluwole Olukunle Moses printed the identities of “key avid gamers in the polity”, who are in the lend a hand of the keep in the country and as effectively how intervening time authorities fear, if unattended to may perhaps presumably additionally result in an revolt in the land.

The lawful practitioner eminent that such an opinion after the winner of the February 25 election has been declared is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

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