Tinubu Welcomes PEPT’s Verdict, Seeks Collective Effort to Build Nigeria Pledges to exceed people's expectations in service delivery PDP, LP reject tribunal’s ruling Buhari, Ganduje, govs, APC, others react to judgment By our correspondents President Bola Tinubu, yesterday,
responded to the news of his electoral victory affirmed by the Presidential Election Petition Court, from India,
where he was participating in the G-20 summit, and saluted the diligence, undaunted thorough-
ness, and professionalism of the five-member bench, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani in interpreting
the law. He however, urged his cocontestants, Atiku Abubakar of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Continued on page 39
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Election Court Validates Tinubu’s Presidency Five key takeaways: 1. Abuja now effectively 37th state, 25% votes not required 2. BVAS dumped 3. Electronic transmission of results discretionary 4. Tinubu’s $460,000 forfeiture not criminal 5. President’s candidacy fit and proper Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha, Alex Enumah in Abuja, Emma Okonji and Nosa Alekhuogie in Lagos The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, yesterday, validated the election of Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria, satisfied that he was duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes and that the petitions against him lacked merit and were liable to be dismissed. The court further held that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, failed to prove allegations of substantial non-compliance, amongst others, against Tinubu, during the February 25, presidential election. The ruling, which lasted over 12 hours and delivered by Justice Haruna Tsammani, however, addressed five fundamental issues in the various petitions, which have become the takeaways from the ruling. They are that Abuja has effectively become Nigeria’s 37th state, and did Continued on page 39
NIGERIA/INDIAN ROUND TABLE BUSINESS... L-R: Director General of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee; Executive Vice Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solution Ltd., Mr. R. Dinesh; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal, during presentation of gift to Nigeria's President at Nigeria/India Presidential Roundtable Business Community Conference at Le Meriden, New Delhi, India. ... yesterday