The Court of Appeal in Abuja, where the Presidential Election Petition Court has affirmed Bola Tinubu as the validly elected President of Nigeria.

The head of the five-member panel of the court, who delivered the lead judgment, Justice Haruna Tsammani, made the pronouncement after dismissing the petition of Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Atiku’s case was the third and last of the petitions, aimed at the credibility of the 25 February presidential election, to be dismissed by the court in its record 12-hour-long judgment on Wednesday.

The court dismissed the Labour Party’s Peter Obi and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) petitions earlier.

Justice Tsammani held that the three petitions were not proved.

The three petitions alleged the non-qualification of Tinubu and Kashim Shettima to run for the presidency, irregularities and corrupt practices during the election, and failure of Tinubu to meet full constitutional requirements to be declared the winner of the election due to his inability to secure 25 per cent of the votes in Abuja, the federal capital.

The court resolved all the issues formulated to determine the cases against the petitioners and in favour of Tinubu and the other respondents.

The court ruled that none of the allegations were proven with credible evidence.

The panel-Justices Stephen Adah, Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf, Moses Ugo, and Abba Mohammed adopted the reasoning and conclusions in the lead judgement.

Here is Justice Ugo during his examination of the Presidential Election Based on the allegation of jumbo votes by the LP.