Eko Hot Blog reports that former Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has urged petitioners to accept the judgment of the presidential election tribunal, which upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 poll.
The tribunal ruled on Wednesday that the petitions filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) were “all devoid of merit”.
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In a post on his Twitter page, Murray-Bruce asked the petitioners to be more concerned about national interest rather than self-interest.
“Once elections have been held and a winner is announced, we must follow the Jonathan doctrine and accept the people’s verdict in the interest of democracy and the nation,” he said.
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“Our elections don’t have to end in the courts. But now that we have found ourselves in this position, and the courts have spoken, let us put national interest above self-interest, accept the verdict, and move on so the nation can advance.”
Murray-Bruce also commended the judges of the presidential election petition court for doing a challenging job exceptionally well.
“It was democracy that won,” he said.
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