The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, has called into question the constitutionality of swearing in the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29.
Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, was declared the winner of the presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 1.
However, Baba-Ahmed, who made a live appearance Wednesday on a television programme, argued that the APC failed to satisfy the requirements of Section 134 (2)(a) and (b) of the Constitution for election to the office of the President.
Addressing President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the LP vice-presidential candidate made the argument that going ahead with Tinubus inauguration would be unconstitutional.
According to the provisions of that section, the rightful winner is one who has the highest number of votes cast at the election and has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to him, swearing in a ticket that has not met the requirements of the constitution is ending democracy.
