Atiku Camp: Tinubu will be third African president to be sacked by court

The Atiku Abubakar campaign council has declared that Nigeria will become the next African nation to annul a presidential election after allegations of ballot rigging in the recently held elections that resulted in Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as president-elect.
As you may recall, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Tinubu as the election’s victor despite protests from rival political parties, who have since sued to overturn the decision.
One of the grounds for dispute by the losing parties was INEC’s failure to electronically transmit the results of the election from 176,606 polling places to a public portal as required by the commission’s regulations and guidelines.
A spokesperson for the Atiku campaign, Daniel Bwala, expressed optimism in a tweet that the February 25, 2023, presidential election in Nigeria will be declared invalid due to purported vote rigging.

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After Kenya and Mali, he continued, Nigeria would be the third African nation to annul a presidential election.

It was stated that “This is indeed a very historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension to the people of the continent of Africa” after the Supreme Court of Kenya for the first time in Africa declared the presidential elections invalid.

“A court decision invalidating a rigged presidential election was made, marking a first in the history of African democratization. It signaled a turning point for democracy on the African continent. Following that, Malawi’s Supreme Court did the same. Save this post; Nigeria is next, he continued.
After Austria, the Maldives, and Russia, Kenya was the third nation in the world and the first in Africa to declare a presidential election invalid in 2017.

Even though some international observers deemed the election to be free and fair, the Supreme Court of the East African nation declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s reelection null and void.

After being named the victor of the country’s 2019 presidential election, Peter Mutharika, Malawi’s former president, was ousted by a constitutional court.

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In light of evidence of irregularities, the court nullified the results of the presidential election and mandated that new elections be held within 150 days. Mutharika was defeated by Lazarus Chakwera in the rematch.