I’m not surprised by your court case, Buhari tells Atiku after he, wife vote in Daura
Nigeria’s President and president-elect in the 23 February 2019 presidential election in the country, Muhammadu Buhari, has said that it was not surprising to him that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’presidential candidate during the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, went to court to challenge his victory.
The president stated this shortly after casting his vote during the gubernatorial and State House Assembly elections at the polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State, on Saturday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on 27 February declared the president winner of the 2019 presidential election.
Buhari was declared re-elected having polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 states, to defeat 72 other candidates, including Atiku Abubakar, who scored 11, 255,978 votes.
However, Atiku, who won in 17 states and the FCT to occupy the second position, had through his legal team filed case at the Presidential Election Tribunal, challenging the result of the election.
Atiku had demanded that materials used for the Feb. 23 presidential election be inspected by his legal team.
But, President Buhari, who reacted to the decision of Atiku to seek legal redress over the outcome of the election, told newsmen at the polling unit that: “I expect that to happen.’’
The president expressed concern over the reported cases of violence before and during the last presidential and national assembly elections.
He, however, commended the efforts of the security agencies in addressing the various security challenges across the country.
“I will leave it (security) to the law enforcement agencies especially the police because they have been meeting virtually on a 48-hour basis to make sure that they have identified the flashpoints, as you mentioned, wherever they are and make arrangements to counter it,’’ he said.
The president, dressed in a sky-blue traditional babanriga with a blue cap to match, alongside his wife, Aisha, had earlier voted at the polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State.
Buhari, wife vote in Daura
President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, on Saturday, joined hundreds of other electorates to exercise their franchise at the polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president, accompanied by his wife, arrived the polling unit at about 8.00a.m, where both of them were cleared and issued ballot papers by the unit presiding officer, Aliyu Abdullahi.
The president and his wife, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) numbers 187 and 182 respectively, voted at exactly 8.08 a.m. to elect their preferred candidates for Katsina State governorship and House of Assembly legislators.
The duo had performed similar civic responsibility during the Feb. 23 Presidential and National elections at the same polling unit.
