In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele made it known that if the attempt to influence their judgments is successful, Nigeria will be thrown into a huge crisis which will further cause citizens to be in pain.
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He said such comments were troubling and uncalled for.
Some of the respondents hailed the judiciary over the judgment while others expressed their reservations.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday.
According to a press release issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha said that the president’s victory is for all “lovers of democracy in and outside the country as it signifies a light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria’s democracy”.
President Muhammadu Buhari says Wednesday’s verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal affirming his victory at the 2019 polls, is victory for Nigerians who trooped out to overwhelmingly elect him for a second term.
The Buhari Media Organisation has commended members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal for dismissing the petition against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Delivering judgment, Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the five-man panel, held that the tribunal lack the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the five-man panel of justices reserved judgment to a date to be communicated to all parties, after all counsel in the matter adopted their written addresses.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday fixed August 21 for parties to adopt their written addresses in the petition challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari’s in the February 23 general election.
Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buahri on Tuesday told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar in the Feb.23 general election was a Cameroonian “flesh and blood’’.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday ordered the Hope Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Albert Awuru, to open their case on July 22.
Witnesses at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday revealed a litany of electoral malpractices, including destruction of electoral materials, falsification, alteration and massive thumb printing of ballot papers, at the February 23 presidential election in Nasarawa State.
Justice Mohammed Garba fixed the date on Wednesday after the panel discovered that the application was not ripe for hearing.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday rejected an invitation to grant an application seeking the withdrawal of Hope Democratic Party from challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.
Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the five-man panel reserved the application after it was argued by Counsel to parties.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has fixed June 25 to entertain a motion filed by the interim National Chairman of Hope Democratic Party, Tapre Poland, seeking to withdraw petition against President Muhammadu Buhari.
The All Progressives Congress on Thursday prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to strike out Atiku Abubakar’s petition against President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election because he is not a Nigerian by birth.
Hope Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Albert Oworu, on Thursday prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to cancel the Feb.23 presidential election, describing the exercise as a “referendum” and not an election.
Justice Mohammed Garba on Monday replaced Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa on the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.