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General News of Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Source: www.mynigeria.com

49 lawyers to defend Tinubu’s presidential victory; list of top 17 drops

Bola Tinubu presenting his certificate of return to Oba Akiolu Bola Tinubu presenting his certificate of return to Oba Akiolu

Following the controversy that has surrounded the declaration of Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as president-elect, some 49 lawyers are reported to have offered their services to the former Lagos governor, according to Legit.ng.

The electoral commission, INEC declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.

He also scored over 25 percent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.

INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election.

Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

With Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi contesting INEC's decision in court, signified their interest in defending Tinubu's mandate at the court.

Below are some of the lawyers

- Wole Olanipekun

- Akin Olujimi

- Yusuf Ali

- Lateef Fagbemi

- A.U. Mustapha

- Ahmed Raji

- Abiodun Owonikoko

- Kemi Pinheiro

- Niyi Akintola

- H.M. Liman

- Taiwo Osipitan

- Babatunde Ogala

- Roland Otaru

- James Onoja

- Muiz Banire

- Olusola Oke

- Mohammed Abubakar