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Mahmoud, Former NBA President, joins 8 other SANs in Defending INEC in Court.

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Mahmoud, former NBA president, joins 8 other SANs in defending INEC in court.

In order to defend how it handled the presidential election on February 25, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed at least nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).

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NewsReport gathered that according to City Lawyer, Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), will serve as the team’s leader (SAN). Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu are additional team members (SAN).

It was gathered from a member of the legal team that four SANs, who are staff of INEC’s Legal Department, are also members of the legal team alongside Messrs. Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi.

On March 1, 2023, INEC declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

The National Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who doubled as the Chief Returning Officer of the Presidential election, declared that Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes and also scored over 25 percent of the votes cast in 30 states, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 6,984,520 votes to take the second position.

According to the electoral umpire, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, came in third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) came in fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

While the election was criticised by many observers and the opposition parties, Atiku, Obi, and two other presidential candidates, including Solomon Okangbuan of the Action Alliance (AA) and Chichi Ojei of the Allied People’s Movement (APM), have challenged INEC’s declaration of Tinubu as president-elect at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

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