A stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party and media mogul, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has called on his party and its candidate for the February 25, 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, to accept the judgment of the Supreme Court affirming President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the poll.
The representative of Bayelsa East Senatorial District from 2015 to 2019 made the call in a post on his X handle.
The post, on Thursday, followed the ruling earlier in the day by the Supreme Court dismissing the appeal of the PDP and Abubakar against the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The court dismissed the seven grounds of the appeal.
So also did it dismiss the appeal by the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi.
Commenting on the outcome of the appeal challenging the earlier ruling of the Presidential Election Petitions Court, Murray-Bruce said: “The Supreme Court has now ruled on the appeal brought by my party and its Presidential candidate. I do not comment on the rightness or wrongness of the judgment, except to say that as a law-abiding and patriotic citizen of Nigeria, it is accepted that the Supreme Court is final.
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“Therefore, the judgment should be accepted by all Nigerians as settling all the issues of contention and the matter of who won the Presidential election held on February 25, 2023. Therefore, I call on the Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential candidate, Waziri Atiku Abubakar, to accept the judgment and let this controversy end.
“I congratulate President Bola Tinubu and the people of Nigeria, who now have clarity for the future. Perhaps we can now focus on the task of building our nation and growing our economy to enable it to deliver a decent living and opportunities for positive human development for all Nigerians, especially the masses.
“To the Peoples Democratic Party, let us learn from the disunity that cost us this election. If a united opposition could not defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2019, we showed an extreme lack of judgment to have allowed division within our ranks in 2022-2023. Hopefully, we can make better decisions for the future.
“May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
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