March 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The elected president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, will move to a military installation in the capital, Abuja, until the celebration of his inauguration, scheduled for May 29, after being declared the winner of the elections and in the midst of the allegations of fraud by the main opposition candidates.
“The president-elect will move to Defense House, in Maitama, Federal Capital Territory, where he will spend the next couple of months and from where he will move to the Presidential Palace,” his campaign said in a brief message on his web account. social Twitter.
In this way, Tinubu will hold his official meetings at these facilities and will receive reports regarding the transfer of powers by the outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, a member of his own party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tinubu’s decision is the same as that adopted by Buhari himself after winning the 2015 presidential election, when he moved to Defense House for several months ahead of his inauguration on May 29 of that year. Later, he moved to his official residence at Aso Rock Villa.
Opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labor Party announced on Thursday that they will appeal the results to the courts arguing that there have been irregularities. Both claim to have won.
In fact, the three main opposition parties in Nigeria on Tuesday demanded the rerun of the elections and maintained that the elections are “irreparably compromised” and denounced a manipulation of the results due to the delays in the publication of the minutes on the Internet.
The winner of the election will replace Buhari, who was unable to run because he has already served the term limit set by the Nigerian Constitution. The elections also mark the first time since the return of the country to civilian rule in 1999 in which none of the candidates is a former military leader, as was the case with Buhari, who led the country between December 1983 and August. 1985 after a coup.
