Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) should not have challenged Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in court, according to former federal lawmaker Ben Murray Bruce.
After Tinubu won at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday, a former senator from Bayelsa expressed his thoughts on the matter.
Both Atiku and Peter Obi are contesting INEC’s decision to name Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
On Wednesday, they had a huge defeat in their legal efforts to remove Tinubu as Nigeria’s duly elected president.
Ben Murray-Bruce believes that the two men should not have begun their journey to the Supreme Court to settle the dispute.
He argued that the politicians could have avoided the whole ordeal if they had followed the example of former President Goodluck Jonathan, who had called Muhammadu Buhari to offer his congratulations before the final results had been published by the Independent National Electoral Commission in 2015.
Once the electoral umpire has declared a winner, Bruce argues that there should be no further waste of time and money.
X “We must follow the Jonathan doctrine and accept the people’s verdict in the interest of democracy and the nation,” he wrote.
Insisting that “our elections don’t have to end in the courts,” he said.
The PDP leader went on to say that the politicians who were wronged should accept the judgement of the Tribunal and put the good of the country ahead of their own ambitions.
“Bola Ahmed Tinubu, @officialABAT, is the duly elected and undisputed President of Nigeria, @NGRPresident,” he stated, adding that there should be no more uncertainties and controversy after the judgement.
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