By Joseph Onyekwere (Lagos) and Azimazi Jimoh Momoh (Abuja)<\/p>\n
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said he has been vindicated in his submission that he has verifiable and incontrovertible evidence to show that the last presidential elections were fraudulent, not credible and did not reflect the will of the Nigerian people.<\/p>\n
He said the response of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) President Buhari, as well as the party is a vindication of the petition he filed at the Electoral Tribunal hearing the petition.<\/p>\n
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A professor of Law, University of Benin, Benin City, Edoba Omoregie said where someone was born is irrelevant if before the country\u2019s independence and after, the fellow\u2019s parents were born in Nigeria or one of them was born in Nigeria to a community indigenous to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the provisions in Chapter III of the Constitution is relevant because they provide for what make a Nigerian by birth. If you look closely at section 25 (1) (a) \u2013 (c) and (2), you will see that where you were born is irrelevant if before independence and after, your parents were born in Nigeria or one of them was born in Nigeria to a community indigenous to Nigeria. Or where before independence, your grandparents were born in Nigeria or one of them was born to a community indigenous to Nigeria,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
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