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The President, Main-Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
The President, Main Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday, in Abuja, urged opposition events to simply accept the decision of the court docket even because the election tribunal listening to begins on Tuesday, Could 30.
“No matter the result of the varied circumstances, I urge all events concerned to simply accept the choice of our courts and be a part of arms to construct a greater Nigeria,” Buhari stated in his farewell message aired on the Nigerian Tv Authority, early Sunday.
Buhari advocated an identical concept in his Easter Day message on April 7, when he urged Nigerians aggrieved by the result of the February 25 and March 18 elections to “wait patiently and permit our authorized system to run its course.”
On March 1, 2023, the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee declared Bola Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress because the winner of the Presidential polls held per week earlier, having polled 8,794,726 votes.
The fee declared that Atiku got here second with 6,984,520 votes, whereas it introduced Labour Social gathering’s Peter Obi because the second runner-up with 6,101,533 votes.
However Atiku, Obi and another events rejected the outcomes introduced by INEC and had approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to annul Tinubu’s victory.
The PUNCH reported that the tribunal started pre-hearing on Monday, Could 8 and, solely final Tuesday, slated the hearings correct for Could 30.
Buhari saluted the “doggedness and resilience” of all of the Presidential Candidates and their political events for believing in our judicial system by taking their grievances with the election outcomes to the court docket.
He stated “In the middle of the campaigns, we had argued and disagreed on find out how to make Nigeria higher however we by no means disagreed or had any doubts that Nigeria needs to be higher.
“As your President, I name on all of us to deliver to bear the power of our individualism, the facility of our unity, the convictions of our beliefs to make Nigeria work higher and along with one spirit and one objective.”
