The Presidential Election Petition Court held that the “Requirement of pleading are provided in paragraph 4(d) of the 1st schedule of the electoral act.
Every party to an election petition must ensure averment to its pleading.
Pleading are written statements of parties, where parties states summary of the issues to prove its case.
The pleading of the petitioner with allegations to various forms of election violations in the presidential election are vague as they were to tied to any polling unit.
There must be pleading of particulars of electoral fraud or crime.
The averment of the petitioner failed to specify the places were irregularities occurred or places where there was no election.
The petitioner alleged INEC had suppressed their votes in Rivers and Benue state they failed to state the figures or the polling units.
The petitioners admitted not specifying the polling unit or the figures unlawfully deducted from their votes, but will rely on the INEC spreadsheet showing results and the forensics analyses.
These documents were not pleaded by the petitioner to afford the respondents to reply.
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