Tinubu Will Be Third African President To Be Sacked By Court – Atiku’s Camp

Following allegations of ballot rigging in the recently concluded presidential elections, the campaign council for Atiku Abubakar stated that Nigeria would become the next African country to annul a presidential election that resulted in the election of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, as president-elect.

Note that despite complaints from opposition political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pronounced Tinubu the winner of the poll, which has since been challenged in court.

One of the reasons for dispute by the losing parties was INEC’s failure to electronically transfer election results from 176,606 polling units to a public portal, as required by the commission’s regulations and guidelines.

Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku campaign, expressed optimism in a tweet that Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25, 2023, will be called off owing to alleged poll tampering.

He suggested that Nigeria, after Kenya and Mali, would become the third African country to call off a presidential election.

Supreme Court of Kenya annulled the presidential elections for the first time in Africa, this was what was said “This is indeed a very historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension to the people of the continent of Africa”, said Bwala.

“For the first time in the history of African democratization, a court has made a ruling nullifying the irregular election of a president. It marked a watershed in the continent of Africa that democracy would survive. After that, the Supreme Court in Malawi followed suit. Nigeria is next, save this post,” he added.

After Austria, the Maldives, and Russia, Kenya became the third country in the world and the first in Africa to annul a presidential election in 2017.

Despite some international observers rating the election as free and fair, the East African country’s Supreme Court declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election void.

A constitutional court fired Malawi’s former president, Peter Mutharika, after being declared the winner of the country’s 2019 presidential election.

The court declared the presidential election results void, citing evidence of irregularities, and ordered that new elections be held within 150 days. Lazarus Chakwera defeated Mutharika in the rematch.