The Presidential Election Petitions Court has affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Tribunal held that the petitioner — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar — did not successfully prove the allegations against this ground and indeed all the grounds in their petition.
The court said the petitions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; as well as those of the Labour Party (LP) and its flag bearer, Peter Obi; challenging Tinubu’s victory lacked merit.
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 this issues were incompetent and liable to be struck out and same were indeed struck out.
