Tribunal upholds Tinubu’s victory of February 25th, 2023, Presidential election

The Presidential Election Petitions Court has upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as declared following the February 25th Presidential polls

The Tribunal held that the petitioner — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar — did not successfully prove the allegations against the ground and indeed all the grounds in their petition on whether the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was right to have return Tinubu as the duly elected by majority of lawful votes cast in the February 25, 2023 polls.

Justice Haruna Tsammani, leader of the five-man panel, said, “This petition accordingly lacks merit. I affirm the return of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the duly elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The parties are to bear their cost.”

The court also expunged 37 exhibits tendered by the witnesses from the court’s records.

On the issue of dumping of documents on the court, he held that this would only go to the weight to be attached to such evidence.

On the issue of Tinubu’s conviction and the issue of his dual citizenship, the Tribunal again held like it earlier did that these issues were incompetent and liable to be struck out and same were indeed struck out.