FRESH: Femi #Falana Speaks On 25% In FCT As Requirement To Emerge President – #TinubuIsNotComing—-The Genius Media Nigeria reports that Popular Legal luminary, Femi Falana says a presidential candidate does not need to win the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to be declared winner of the February 25, 2023 poll.
“It is not a requirement that you must win the FCT,” the Senior Advocate of Nigeria said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday.
“Today, the courts have ruled that pursuant to Section 299 of the constitution, that the FCT should be treated as a state. That is the law.
“You don’t have to win the FCT; if you meet the requirement; that is two-thirds of the majority of states in the country. You don’t have to win the FCT,” the rights activist stressed.
“Two-thirds of 36 states would give you 24 states and then one more state to take you to 25 states,” the lawyer said. “So it is 25 states from 37 states. Not 24 states and then a mandatory 25 per cent of votes in the FCT itself.”
