There is a bogus rumor making the rounds on the internet that claims that senior lawyer and human rights champion Femi Falana challenged the win of the President-elect Bola Tinubu. The interview was published in Vanguard.
To clear up any confusion, the entire report is a creation of false news.
Falana’s opinion, on the other hand, supported the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Tinubu to take the oath of office as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s substantive President.
In an interview published by Vanguard yesterday, Falana stated that he was not shocked by the Supreme Court’s decision, which allowed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, to be sworn in as president-elect on Monday, May 29.
There is a bogus rumor making the rounds on the internet that claims that senior lawyer and human rights champion Femi Falana challenged the win of the President-elect Bola Tinubu. The interview was published in Vanguard.
To clear up any confusion, the entire report is a creation of false news.
Falana’s opinion, on the other hand, supported the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Tinubu to take the oath of office as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s substantive President.
In an interview published by Vanguard yesterday, Falana stated that he was not shocked by the Supreme Court’s decision, which allowed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, to be sworn in as president-elect on Monday, May 29.In a unanimous ruling by a five-member panel, the top court dismissed an appeal the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, brought to question Tinubu’s ability to run in the February 25 presidential election as lacking substance.
It determined that the appeal, with the filing number SC/CV/501/2023, was made in bad faith and emphasized that the PDP, whose candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, finished second in the presidential election, lacked locus standi (the legal right) to contest a nomination made by another political party.
The PDP had asked the court to nullify Tinubu’s candidacy in its appeal, claiming that the Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, had let himself to be nominated for more than one office before to the 2023 general elections.
There is a bogus rumor making the rounds on the internet that claims that senior lawyer and human rights champion Femi Falana challenged the win of the President-elect Bola Tinubu. The interview was published in Vanguard.
To clear up any confusion, the entire report is a creation of false news.
Falana’s opinion, on the other hand, supported the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Tinubu to take the oath of office as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s substantive President.
In an interview published by Vanguard yesterday, Falana stated that he was not shocked by the Supreme Court’s decision, which allowed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, to be sworn in as president-elect on Monday, May 29.It informed the court that Shettima received two nominations—one for the Vice Presidential position and the other for the Borno Central Senatorial seat.
However, in response to the news, Falana said he was not shocked because he was aware that the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal had both rejected the case.
The legal eminence said that the Supreme Court did little more than affirm the contemporaneous decision of the two law courts.
According to the existing election system, all candidates who have received their Certificate of Return and been vetted by the INEC must take the oath of office on May 29. The law is as stated.
If there are appeals based on the petition against several of them, the case will be decided within 180 days.