Ajuri Ngelale, the president’s special media and publicity adviser, stated on Monday that President Bola Tinubu is “not worried” about the outcome of the Presidential Election Tribunal’s decision on Wednesday. When Ngelale appeared on Seun Okinbaloye’s Channels Television program Politics Today, he claimed, “He’s not worried simply because he knows he won the election.”
After weeks of hearings, the tribunal will deliver its major decision without Tinubu, who will depart for New Delhi, India, on Monday night (today) to attend the G-20 conference. This occurs just hours after the court’s registrar, Umar Bangari, said that the court has decided to rule on the petitions contesting President Bola Tinubu’s election on Wednesday, September 6.On March 1, 2023, Tinubu was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission. In order to overcome Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, who received 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who received 6,101,533 votes, the former governor of Lagos State received 8,794,726 votes.Unhappy with the results, five political parties—the PDP, LP, Action Peoples Party, Allied Peoples Movement, and the Action Alliance—filed individual applications with the tribunal asking for Tinubu’s victory to be thrown out.Details to follow…
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