The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is legally the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
The body of lawyers said it was wrong for anyone to refer to Tinubu as an illegal president since his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not been set aside by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Recall that the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, are challenging INEC’s declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25th presidential poll at the tribunal.
Reacting to a series of controversies surrounding the position of many Nigerians, and responding to questions during the presentation of a communique of the 63rd annual NBA conference in Abuja, NBA president, Yakubu Maikyau, dismissed insinuation that Tinubu is an illegal president.
He stressed that the insinuation could only be true when the court affirmed the petitions challenging his victory are true.
“As at today, there is only one president and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the person of President Bola Tinubu,” he said
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