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The Supreme Court has confirmed President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election, rejecting the arguments filed by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar regarding the results of the presidential election on February 25.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party’s Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi have contested the election results, which showed All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate President Bola Tinubu as the victor.
The appeals are based on a variety of arguments, such as the use of technology in the election, doubts about Tinubu’s academic credentials, and other constitutional issues.
In a lead ruling drafted and read by Justice Inyang Okoro, the supreme court determined that the case filed by former presidential candidate and PDP nominee Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to overturn the election’s results lacked validity.
It concluded that Atiku had not demonstrated that the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, had conducted the election in a way that did not substantially adhere to the requirements of the Electoral Act.
It stated that an election “could not be nullified for any reason if results were not available on INEC’s IReV portal.”
The highest court ruled that Atiku and the PDP had not demonstrated that they had experienced any injustice as a result of the Presidential Election Petition Court’s (PEPC) denial of their petition.
Atiku’s argument that Tinubu shouldn’t have been proclaimed the victor of the presidential election because he didn’t receive 25% of the vote in the Federal Capital Territory, or FCT, Abuja, was deemed misguided and wrong.
The FCT does not have a status that is more unique than that of the 36 States of the federation, according to the PEPC, which was supported by the highest court.
It said that the majority of the witnesses provided “inadmissible hearsay” arguments and supported the decision to exclude some of the testimony of witnesses who supported Atiku during the PEPC hearing.
The chief justice of the highest court panel, Justice Okoro, said, “The Appellants did not present any evidence to warrant the interference of the lower court’s findings.”
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
