Browsing: PEPC

Let’s begin with the golden words of Abraham Lincoln, an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln profoundly posited: “Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.” A case for introspection as all five Judges of the Appeal Court unanimously upheld the election of Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President C-in-C of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 25, 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court that dismissed his suit against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.