THE Supreme Court has put a judicial seal of approval on President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory at the April 16, 2011 presidential polls.
In affirming Jonathan as the validly elected President, the apex court yesterday dismissed the appeal by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for failing to prove that its claims of non-compliance with the 2010 Electoral Act by the electoral umpire substantially affected the outcome of the polls.
Although the CPC was without its presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in the bid to nullify Jonathan’s victory following his pledge not to challenge the outcome in court, he however deplored the apex court’s ruling.
Buhari, in a swift reaction to the ruling, said the apex court toed the same path it followed in 2003 and 2007, when it gave similar judgments on his appeal against the victory of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his successor, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua........Guardian News.
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