This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs

who's in Perth, Australia, commenting on the news from Nigeria, the recent election.

This is a headline in these last hours from the East African. Nigeria's APC, that's the

all-party, all-progressive's Congress, urged the country's presidential election petition

court in Aboujah to dismiss the petition filed by the Labor Party and its presidential

candidate Peter Obey against the Declaration of Bolo Tnubu as President-elect in the February

25th election. Gregory, as I understand it, the election is now in the courts. What is

the likely possibility? Because the allegations in this document are extensive.

Yes, the allegations by the Labor Party and its leader because they lost serious and genuine,

but the most significant appeal at the Aboujah court is from Abu Bakr Atiku,

who's, or Atiku Abu Bakr, the former Vice President, who's the real front runner in the election.

And what is petition states is that the Constitution was not upheld with the election because the declared

winner, Bolo Tnubu, had not won 25% of the electorate or the vote in the federal capital territory of

Aboujah. And that's critical. And it's stark, it's clear, it's indisputable. That's in the

Constitution. You have to win X number of states and at least 25% of the vote from the federal

capital territory. And Atiku did not win that. So therefore, the election has to be declared

undecided and the election then has to go to its second round. We have 30 seconds.

That should agree. Is this likely to happen in the next months or take years? 30 seconds.

In my view, it's unlikely to happen and that we'll be papered over and that will be the cause

for massive unrest in Nigeria for the coming four years. Gregory Coppley,

Defense and Foreign Affairs, updating us on the Nigerian election. More to come in future.

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