The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal this morning held that President Jonathan won the April 16 election and was rightly returned by INEC as duly elected.
The President of the Tribunal said that the CPC was unable to establish its burden of proof, even on the basis of probability, and as such the petition was dismissed for lack of merit.
The CPC had sued President Jonathan, Vice President Mohamed Namadi Sambo, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), its Chairman and Resident Electoral Commissioners of all 36 states and the FCT.
In the petition filed through its counsel Ebun Sofunde (SAN), CPC asked the tribunal to hold that President Jonathan and his vice were not duly elected by majority of lawful votes cast at the April 16 election. They averred that the election was marred by irregularities and that President Jonathan and his party influenced voters by giving them incentives.
They equally averred that the election was not conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act particularly as it was marred by non-accreditation of voters, entry of wrong figures in Forms EC8A EC8B & EC8C and arbitrary allocation of scores in favour of President Jonathan. Moreover, they said the president, his vice and his party failed to establish by credible evidence that the election was conducted in accordance with law.
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