President Buhari ruled out the annulment of the presidential and National Assembly elections of February 25, allegedly characterized with the aid of irregularities, and pronouncing it wouldn`t permit the June 12, 1993, saga to copy itself. Consequently,
It recommended any candidate or political celebration now no longer happy with the behavior and final results of the election to technique the courtroom docket for redress.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, issued a declaration the day before, titled
“At the fifth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, LDCs, President Buhari drummed up help for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu`s Presidency.
He stated earlier than the election, President Buhari had in distinct fora, each nearby and worldwide,
confident that he might make certain that the elections that could bring him out of workplace might be credible and that the final results might replicate the desire of human beings to select who might lead them.
The signing into regulation the Electoral Act, 2022 and using generation for the elections have been indicators that President Buhari became geared up to bequeath to Nigeria, an obvious electoral process, with out manipulations.
However, controversy has trailed the behavior and final results of the February 25 presidential election, as INEC were accused of failing to strictly observe the Electoral
Act with reference to transmission of outcomes from the BVAS to the iREV without delay after collation of the polling units.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo became the primary to elevate the alarm that INEC had compromised the behavior of the election with the aid of no longer maintaining to the electoral legal guidelines and had,
in a declaration he issued, referred to as on President Buhari to name the electoral umpire to order, so the U.S. might now no longer be thrown into political crisis.
But the presidential spokesman, in what can be stated to be the takeaways he indexed from the President`s participation in the LDCs Conference in Doha, Qatar,
stated Buhari whilst talking to Nigerians within the Diaspora about the continued political transition, referred to as for help for the incoming authorities of Asiwaju Tinubu.
He stated: “In addition to different things, this trip, more than any other, speaks to the courage, political stamina and statesmanship with which the President has controlled the affairs of the nation.
“Before the trip, he became confronted with orchestrated attempts to poison public opinion towards country-wide institutions, especially the presidential election and its behavior,
with the aid of using the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as an institution, towards which vile and unsubstantiated allegations have been hurled.
“The clean reason for this became developing an environment of fear, polarising the general public, and demonising the management of the President.
The wishful thinkers seemed to count on that the June 12, 1993, election crisis, the worst ever because the civil battle can be recreated.
”Those who sought to do that forgot what the President stated on the palace of the Gbong-Gwon Jos, whilst he went to the metropolis to inaugurate the Tinubu-Shettima campaign:
“this election will now no longer be annulled; whoever is the winner could be president.”
“President Buhari now no longer best muted himself, following the cacophony, he picked up worldwide travel: Bola Tinubu`s election stands.
If you’re aggrieved, and you’ve got the locus to do so, visit courtroom docket.“
“President Buhari used the possibility of going to talk to his visitors about the latest election in Nigeria and the reality that a brand new president might be taking over in much less than 3 months.
”He expressed wish that the sturdy family members he had constructed among the ones nations will preserve will bear withinside the new management.”
