Tinubu Isn’t My President – Aisha Yesufu

• Aisha Yesufu, a rights activist, maintains her stance that President Bola Tinubu is not her president after the Supreme Court ruling
• Yesufu reaffirms her position despite the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding Tinubu’s victory

Aisha Yesufu, a rights activist and co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, has once again made it clear that President Bola Tinubu is not her president. She reaffirmed this statement following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Tinubu.

A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice John Okoro, upheld Tinubu’s victory, rejecting the petition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, stating that it lacked merit.

Aisha Yesufu, known for her vocal criticism of the ruling All Progressives Congress and her previous criticisms of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over issues like insecurity, used her social media platform to express her stance. She reiterated, “Let me repeat, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not my President.”

Supreme Court upholds President Tinubu’s election

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, affirmed President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the valid winner of the presidential election that held in the country on February 25.

The apex court, in its lead judgement that was prepared and read by Justice Inyang Okoro, held that there was no merit in the petition that a former President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify the outcome of the election.

It held that Atiku did not prove that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, did not substantially comply with provisions of the Electoral Act, in the conduct of the election.

The apex court held that section 185(1) of the Evidence Act provided that an election should not be liable to be invalidated, when alleged non compliance did not substantially affect the outcome of an election.

It held that evidence contained in the record of the appeal showed that the Appellants abandoned the duty imposed on them by the law to not only prove the alleged non compliance, but to establish that failure of INEC to transmit results of the election through its IReV portal, influenced the outcome of the presidential poll.