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The Peoples Democratic Party has described the Supreme Court judgment affirming Bola Ahmed Tinubu of APC as lawful winner of 2023 presidential election as disappointing.
–PDP’s Atiku Abubakar
The State Online reports that the apex court upheld the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal affirming the victory of the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, against public belief.
PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, had filed petitions challenging the victory of President Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election announced by the INEC in the wee hours of March 1.
However, a five-man panel of the Tribunal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, in September, agreed that the petitions accordingly lacked merit and affirmed the return of President Tinubu.
Dissatisfied with the Tribunal’s judgment, the LP Presidential Candidate and his counterpart in PDP filed 86 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court to nullify the judgment. But the apex court, on Thursday, dismissed their petitions for lack of merit.
Reacting to the Supreme Court Judgment in a statement during the week, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said they are alarmed, disappointed, and gravely concerned with the reasoning of the apex court, stressing the danger the Supreme Court affirmation had portended for Nigeria./SHARE THIS
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