By Baron Ike
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday affirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the February 23, 2019 presidential ballot.
The tribunal, which gave its judgement late Wednesday evening at the Court of Appeal Headquarters in Abuja, said that the petitioner, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), failed to prove the claims based on which he asked for the voiding of Buhari’s election.
Justice Garba Mohammed who led the judgement consequently dismissed the petition “in its entirety” and however refrained from awarding costs to any of the parties.
Justice Mohammed congratulated both the petitioners and the respondents for doing a good work.
Earlier, the tribunal had dismissed the argument by the PDP seeking to disqualify President Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for the 2019 General Election.
Instead, the court ruled that Buhari possesses the West African School Certificate Examination, (WASCE), to contest the 2019 presidential election and that he wen to school contrary to claims.
It said Buhari was not only qualified, but eminently qualified to contest the election, saying that the petitioners (Atiku Abubakar and PDP), could not run away from the fact that Buhari obtained WASCE which qualified him for the election.
The court said apart from being qualified, the president also obtained other certificates to validate claims that he is eminently qualified for the presidential poll.
Justice Mohammed, therefore struck out the claims by the PDP and Atiku that Buhari did not possess the needed qualification for the election and that he presented false information to INEC.