PEPC: Heavens will not fall if justice is done, Atiku replies Tinubu

<p>The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 general election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that heavens will not fall if justice is done by annulling his election.</p>, <p>In a final written address of Atiku and the PDP in their joint petition challenging Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the presidential election put together by their lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), Atiku said the February 25 presidential election is the worst in the annals of general elections in Nigeria.</p>, <p>The petitioners said in their final written address that the presidential election was marred with brazen subversion of the will of the Nigerian voters, despite the enactment of a new Electoral Act, the introduction of promising technological innovations to ensure transparency, massive investment of public funds and guarantees by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that conducted the election.</p>, <p>According to Atiku, INEC, under the excuse of “technical glitch”, deliberately manipulated the election results through suppression and discounting of his votes and inflation of the votes of Tinubu.</p>, <p>Atiku said, “The deliberate bypass of the use of the prescribed verification technology was nationwide and substantially affected the outcome of the election.”</p>, <p>Uche said in the address that, INEC proceeded to declare Tinubu winner when he (Tinubu) did not meet the mandatory constitutional requirement of securing not less than a quarter of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.</p>, <p>Atiku and his party told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that Tinubu is constitutionally disabled from contesting for the office of President of Nigeria in the light of the forfeiture judgement against him of the sum of $460,000 for narcotics-related crime (proceed of crime) in the United States, as well as holding dual citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea in addition to presenting forged documents to INEC.</p>, <p>In o