Opposition parties and their supporters in Nigeria are rejecting Wednesday’s judgment by Nigeria’s presidential election tribunal that upheld President Bola Tinubu’s election. Tinubu’s main political rivals asked the court to invalidate February’s election, alleging irregularities and fraud.
The main opposition to Bola Tinubu’s February election win came from his challengers, Atiku Abubakar, of the People’s Democratic Party, or PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
Both parties, in separate statements, late Wednesday rejected the court ruling indicating Tinubu won. The Labour Party said justice was not served and that the judges manipulated the law to subvert the will of the people.
The PDP criticized the judgment and said it was based on technicalities and failed to take into account facts and provisions of the law.
Atiku and Obi were seeking to invalidate Tinubu’s election, citing fraud and deliberate manipulation by the electoral body that swayed the outcome in favor of the ruling party.
But a five-man panel of justices dismissed the petitions on the grounds that the opposition parties lacked evidence to back their claims that irregularities swayed the outcome of the polls and merely engaged in a wild goose chase.
9ja Update 