President Muhammadu Buhari has commended presidential
candidates who went to court after losing in the last presidential election.
Buhari saluted the doggedness of the presidential candidates
in seeking redress in court after losing the election.
In his last nationwide broadcast on Sunday, he applauded the
presidential candidates for believing in Nigeria’s judiciary system.
Recall that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi of Labour Party, LP, lost the election
to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
Following their defeat, Atiku and Obi headed to the
Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to contest the election outcome.
On Friday, the Supreme Court had dismissed a suit by the PDP
to stop Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29 over double nomination.
However, Buhari said the last presidential election was the
most keenly contested poll.
According to him: “This year we witnessed the most keenly
contested Presidential Elections since the first Republic, and this
demonstrates that our democracy is getting better and more entrenched with each
election.
“We must as a nation improve and sustain gains we make in
the electoral process, on an incremental basis, for Nigeria to take its
rightful place among Nations.
“Our democracy provides for, allows and encourages seeking
redress for perceived injustices, enabling some candidates and political
parties that did not agree with the results to go to court.
“Irrespective of the outcome of the various cases, I urge all
parties involved to accept the decision of our courts and join hands to build a
better Nigeria.
“I salute the doggedness and resilience of all the
Presidential Candidates and their political parties for believing in our
judicial system by taking their grievances with the election results to court.
“In the course of the campaigns, we had argued and disagreed
on how to make Nigeria better but we never disagreed or had any doubts that
Nigeria has to be better.”
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