President Muhammadu Buhari has said that with the judgment of the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissing the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, the country should be allowed to move on.
Buhari also said he should be allowed to focus on his development agenda for the nation.
Atiku and PDP have challenged Buhari’s declaration as winner of the Feb. 23 Presidential election before the Election Petition Tribunal and lost.
They then took the matter on appeal to the Supreme Court which threw out their case as lacking in merit.
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Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision, Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, stressed that the victory had been settled since February 2019 even as he thanked Atiku and the PDP for choosing to vent through the law courts.
The statement read in part: “The President and Government of Nigeria do wish to extend our gratitude to former vice-president and his party for undertaking their campaign through protestations to the courts.
‘‘In this regard, they have conducted themselves in line with the laws of the country they sought to lead.
“Now, following this final legal bid before the highest court, it is time the country is afforded the right to move on – in the interest of all Nigerians – regardless of how they voted.
“The elected President and his Government now must be enabled to focus solely on addressing the issues that concern the country.
“From building economic empowerment and opportunities for the nearly 200 million Nigerians, 60 percent of whom are youths bubbling with energy, to defeating the twin ills of terrorism and corruption, there is much work to do”.
