Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president on February 25, 2023, claims that the October 26, 2023 ruling of the Supreme Court legalized forgery and illegality.
This was said by the former vice president on Monday in Abuja, the country’s capital, at a news conference.
He argued that Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate at the time, was unfit to run in the presidential election in February 2023.
Despite being definitive, Atiku said the Supreme Court’s decision left a lot to be desired.
In its first response to the ruling of the Supreme Court, the party said that by upholding Tinubu’s legitimacy as Nigeria’s president, the Court had betrayed the people of Nigeria.
Atiku and Peter Obi, the leader of the Labour Party (LP), have appealed Tinubu’s election victory all the way to the Supreme Court.
Atiku and Obi, dissatisfied with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal’s (PEPT) ruling from earlier in September, petitioned the Supreme Court to declare Tinubu’s election invalid for a number of reasons, including double nomination, suspected certificate forgery, failure to transmit results electronically, and 25% of votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
But on Thursday, the panel of the supreme court led by Justice John Okoro dismissed all of Atiku and Obi’s challenges due to their lack of substance. The commission then confirmed Tinubu’s election victory.
More will come.