A top campaigner of Peter Obi and the Labour Party, Aisha Yesufu, on Saturday said the party is not overly concerned about the electronic transmission of election results because it is aware that it is not compulsory.
Gists9ja reports that Yesufu however said the Labour Party will approach the court to interrogate the collation of “the actual votes of the people” which she said is “mandatory”.
That is true but collating the actual votes of the people is mandatory and that is what we are asking for. https://t.co/SsebNw3lsS
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) March 4, 2023
“The claim that electronic transmission of election results is not mandatory is true, but collating the actual votes of the people is mandatory and that is what we are asking for,” Yesufu wrote on her verified Twitter handle.
This newspaper reports that the Peter Obi/Yusuf Datti Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) said it had collated enough evidence to prove that the Labour Party candidate won last week’s presidential election in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) president-elect.
Responding to the APC, which said on Friday that there is no law making it mandatory for the electoral body to transmit electoral results electronically, Yesufu lamented that votes at many Polling Units across Nigeria were allegedly upturned against the Labour Party.
