The court, while giving reasons for dismissing the appeal by the PDP and ATIKU, held that they were wrong to have relied on results to get from a website :www.factsdontlieng.co., whose owner they could not establish, to claim to have won the election.
The Supreme Court also held that President MUHAMMADU BUHARI was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission, adding that President BUHARI was eminently qualified to contest the last presidential election.
The court held that contrary to claim by the appellants, no law requires a candidate to submit his or her academic certificates to INEC before being allowed to contest election.
The Supreme Court also held that the constitution does not require one to possess secondary school certificate to be qualified, but that schooling up to secondary school, without possessing the result of the final examination was sufficient.
