{"id":3005,"date":"2023-09-06T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:48:06","slug":"tribunal-upholds-president-tinubus-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/tribunal-upholds-president-tinubus-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Upholds President Tinubu\u2019s Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Wednesday, upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The five-man panel of the Tribunal was led by Justice Haruna Tsammani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This development followed petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, challenging the victory of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election announced by the Independent National Electoral\u00a0Commission on March 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku and Obi, who polled 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Justice Haruna Tsammani,\u00a0 \u201cThis petition accordingly lacks merit. I affirm the return of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the duly elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The parties are to bear their cost.\u201d\u2063<br \/>\n\u2063<br \/>\nThereafter, the five-person panel of the Tribunal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, unanimously took turns to dismiss the petitions presented by the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission on March 1, 2023. \u2063<br \/>\n\u2063<br \/>\nThey include Justice Haruna Tsammani, Justice Stephen Adah, Justice Mistura Bolaji-Yusuf, Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo, and Justice Abba Mohammed. \u2063<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Wednesday, upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}