INEC assigns 9 SANs to defend the 2023 election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has chosen nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria to defend the outcomes of the presidential election on February 25.

According to City Lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, will lead the group (SAN). Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu are additional team members (SAN).

Four SANs who work for INEC’s legal department and are team members together with Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi, it was learned via a member of the legal team.

For the defense of the outcomes of the gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18 and the presidential and national assembly elections on February 25, INEC allotted more than N3 billion.

The panel has announced Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’s presidential candidate, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on March 1, 2023.