Former federal lawmaker, Ben Murray Bruce has said that
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and his Labour Party, LP,
counterpart, Peter Obi, should not have gone to court to challenge the victory
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the
first place.
The Bayelsa-born former lawmaker was reacting to the victory
of Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday.
Atiku and Peter Obi are challenging the declaration of Bola
Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC.
They suffered a major setback on Wednesday in the legal
battle to unseat Tinubu as Nigeria’s elected President.
Both men are now heading to the Supreme Court where the
matter would be laid to rest, but Ben Murray-Bruce felt they should not have
started the journey at all.
According to him, the politicians should have saved
themselves the trouble by emulating former President Goodluck Jonathan, who in
2015, picked up his phone and congratulated Muhammadu Buhari even before the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced the final results.
According to Bruce, there should be no need to further waste
time and resources once the electoral umpire has declared the winner of an
election.
“We must follow the Jonathan doctrine and accept the
people’s verdict in the interest of democracy and the nation,” he wrote on X.
“Our elections don’t have to end in the courts,” he
insisted.
The PDP chieftain further advised that the aggrieved
politicians should accept the Tribunal verdict and place national interest
above self-interest.
“Bola Ahmed Tinubu, @officialABAT, is the duly elected and
undisputed President of Nigeria, @NGRPresident,” he said, adding that there
should be no further doubts and dispute after the judgement.
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Ben Bruce, you did not contest election and you have no right to tell the person who contested not to go to court
ReplyDeleteYou cherish time wasting. Good luck.
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