as the validly elected President of Nigeria, a decisive judicial resolution of the credibility questions that have hovered around his election for over six months.
The petitioners were Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party , who was declared as the first runner-up in the election; Peter Obi of the Labour Party, the second runner-up, and the All Peoples Movement , whose presidential candidate only managed to poll a little over 2,000 votes out of the 24 million votes cast in the election.
The Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, whose manner of nomination was a major plank of arguments decided on by the court, was present throughout the proceeding. But President Tinubu was absent, likewise Atiku and Mr Obi, who was regular in court at the hearing stage.
In what appeared to be a rebuke of overzealous supporters of the opposition candidates, Mr Adah, in his concurring opinion, held that justice “is neither based on technicality nor on justice according to the suggestive clout of pressure groups.” They alleged that INEC deliberately refused to upload the scanned copies of polling unit results in real-time as provided in the election guidelines to manipulate the figures favouring Mr Tinubu.
The PDP candidate, who lost the 2019 presidential election and a legal challenge to the outcome in court to then President Muhammadu Buhari, also alleged, like Mr Obi, that Mr Tinubu was not qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election on the basis that a US court in Northern Illinois ordered him to forfeit $460,000 in a drugs-related case in 1993.
“It is clear from the outset that the petitioners were engaging in wild goose chase and an inquisitorial adventure,” she added.One such was the court’s finding that the petitioners failed to comply with strict legal and judicial authorities that mandate petitioners to file the statements on oath of all their witnesses along with their petitions or before the close of the three-week window for filing an election petition.
The court also dismissed a substantial number of paragraphs of the petitions that were adjudged to be “vague”, “imprecise”, and “generic” with no particulars, such as the details of polling units alleged irregularities took place.
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