Nigerian court affirms president's election, dismisses opposition petitions

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Nigerian court affirms president's election, dismisses opposition petitions

STORY: Nigerian court affirms president's election, dismisses opposition petitions DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of court proceedings STORYLINE: A panel of five judges from Nigeria's election tribunal late Wednesday unanimously affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu, solidifying his position as the West African nation's leader and effectively dismissing petitions by opposition parties. Delivering the judgment which lasted over 12 hours, the five-member panel at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in the national capital of Abuja said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labor Party (LP), which filed the petitions, had failed to prove their allegations beyond reasonable doubts. The court ruled that the petitions "lacked merit" and dismissed them. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of LP, who respectively came second and third in the presidential election won by Tinubu in February, had approached the

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