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Presidential Candidates Do Not Need 25% Votes In FCT – Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ruling by the Appeal Court that a candidate does not need to get at least 25 per cent of votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to be declared as the country’s president.

Osun Defender had reported that the Apex court had earlier rejected the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s motion to file President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University document as fresh evidence.

The presiding justice of the panel, John Okoro, held that the time fixed for tendering of evidence has passed and cannot be extended, adding that the 180 days imposed for hearing of election petitions is immutable and cannot be extended.

According to him, the Supreme Court can not invoke section 22 of its act after the 180 days for the trial court to deliver judgment has lapsed.

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