The “President-elect”, Bola Tinubu, has described calls for a run-off of the March 18th 2023 presidential election as baseless. Tinubu also queried the legal competence of the petition the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify his election. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 election. Atiku, who came second in the election had filed his petition to challenge the outcome of the poll at the Presidential Election Petition Court.
Atiku Has Been Losing Presidential Election Since 1993; Ignore His Call For Fresh Election – Tinubu Urges TribunalTinubu also queried the legal competence of the petition the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify his election.
Atiku, who came second in the election had filed his petition to challenge the outcome of the poll at the Presidential Election Petition Court. The PDP candidate subsequently urged the court to either declare him the president-elect, in the belief that he scored the majority of the lawful votes during the election, or nullify the entire election and order a fresh election.
Insisting that he was validly returned as winner of the presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Tinubu told the court that unlike Atiku, he has been “a most consistent politician, who has not shifted political tendency and alignment”.
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