Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate within the 2023 election, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has mentioned that the Supreme Court didn’t affirm the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, opposite to the final perception
According to the previous federal lawmaker, the apex courtroom merely upheld what he described as the illegality declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Datti Baba-Ahmed acknowledged this when he appeared as a visitor on Arise TV on Monday night, hours after his boss, Peter Obi, addressed the press on the end result of the judicial course of within the aftermath of the election.
He mentioned they’d rejected the Supreme Court judgement and didn’t settle for it as a sound ruling.
Peter Obi had gone to the apex courtroom to problem the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld INEC’s declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the election.
The apex courtroom, in its ruling, stood by the PEPT’s choice, affirming Tinubu as the duly elected president.
“Please quote me on this: the Appeal and Supreme Courts did not affirm Tinubu’s presidency. They merely upheld the illegality of INEC’s declaration,” Datti Baba-Ahmed mentioned on Arise TV.
“We accepted the judgment because it was the last step for HE Peter Obi and I to take; we rejected and did not accept it as a valid judgment.”
