The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) has ruled that the result viewing portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is not a collation system.
The tribunal held that there was nothing in the INEC regulations that showed that the results were to be collated electronically and that the iREV portal is not a collation system.
The tribunal in its judgement also held that it is not compulsory for INEC to use electronic transmission and that the commission was at liberty of using manual mode for transmission of results.
According to the tribunal, Peter Obi and the Labour Party failed to establish that INEC deliberately refused to upload results to the iReV in order to manipulate the election result in favour of President Bola Tinubu.
Details shortly…