Manchester United on Sunday delayed forward Antony’s return to the club following sexual accusations levelled against him by his ex-girlfriend, Gabriel Cavallin.

The English club in a statement acknowledged the allegations made against the Brazillian international.

The statement read, “Players who have not participated in international matches are due back in training on Monday.

“However, it has been agreed with Antony that he will delay his return until further notice in order to address the allegations.

“As a club, we condemn acts of violence and abuse. We recognise the importance of safeguarding all those involved in this situation and acknowledge the impact these allegations have on survivors of abuse.

Recall that the Brazilian has already denied accusations that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend on two separate occasions.

Antony was subsequently left out of Brazil’s most recent batch of international fixtures, as Greater Manchester and Sao Paulo Police conducted an investigation.

Meanwhile, another woman, Ingrid Lana, has accused him of assault.Speaking to Brazilian news outlet Record TV, the lady accused Antony of attempting to pressure her into having sexual intercourse.

However, Antony has strongly denied the new claims, which are alleged to have taken place during a trip to England in 2022.

Ingrid Lana says she was in the country on a business trip when she was invited to the player’s house.

“He tried to have a relationship with me and I didn’t want to. He pushed me against the wall, and I hit my head,” she said during an interview which will air in full on September 10.

“My purpose was just business. Arriving there at his invitation, I realised that he had ulterior motives. I’ve never been anyone’s lover.”

The fresh accusations come after his ex-partner Gabriel Cavallin alleged that Antony had headbutted and punched her in a hotel room on January 14, the day after a Premier League game against Manchester City.

She claims to have suffered a cut to her head and a damaged breast implant.

Antony, who joined United in 2022 from Dutch club Ajax in an £86million transfer, has denied the allegations on social media and stated that he’s co-operated with the police. He has claimed that he has been “falsely accused of assault”.

Spain on Sunday sent a plane with 56 rescuers and four search dogs to quake-hit Morocco after it received a formal request for help from Rabat, the defence ministry said.

An A400 military plane took off from a base in the northeastern city of Zaragoza with the team bound for Marrakesh to “help in the search and rescue of survivors of the devastating earthquake suffered in our neighbouring country,” the ministry said in a post on X, formerly called Twitter.

The rescuers belong to Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit (UME), a body of the armed forces that was created to intervene quickly in emergency situations such as forest fires, floods and earthquakes.

A UME unit was sent to Turkey in February following a devastating earthquake and helped rescue six people, including a mother and two children, according to Spain’s defence ministry.

The strongest-ever quake to hit Morocco has killed at least 2,012 people and injured over 2,000, many of them critically, according to the latest official figures.

“It will be as much aid as Morocco needs, at first what we are setting in motion are search and rescue teams because it is urgent to try to find the greatest number of people alive to save them. When it is time for reconstruction, Spanish aid will also be present.”

Other countries, including the United States and France, have also pledged humanitarian aid but Morocco would first need to formally request assistance, a step required before foreign crews can deploy.

“It will be as much aid as Morocco needs, at first what we are setting in motion are search and rescue teams because it is urgent to try to find the greatest number of people alive to save them. When it is time for reconstruction, Spanish aid will also be present.”

Other countries, including the United States and France, have also pledged humanitarian aid but Morocco would first need to formally request assistance, a step required before foreign crews can deploy.

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa, said the Federal Government will digitalise the healthcare system for better health outcomes.

Alausa said this on Saturday at a press briefing on the ministry’s agenda for the health sector.

He also said the government will increase funding for research and digitalising the health system will help to facilitate accurate data to improve the sector in line with the ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ of President Bola Tinubu.

He said, “We need to begin to make sure that the data we collect are accurate, and they are validated, they can be trusted, internationally and locally. And those data will be used to deliver care to our people. And then once you have validated data that you can trust, you can begin to see the indices where you’re getting better, where you’re doing well, and where you’re not doing well. Then you can recheck your interventions to improve those outcomes.

“As part of our digitalisation of the healthcare system, we’re going to roll out a national electronic medical record where our primary care centres, politicians, and hospitals will come on the same platform. Then as we move into the future, we will encourage each state government to use the same platform.”

Alausa said the unified electromedical platform will aid easy access to data, medical history, continuity of care and reduce cost of care.

He said the sector will be more accountable and well-regulated, and the government will fund research in the country.

“We have a lot of research institutions. Everybody is working independently. We will rejig our research institutions, make them work collaboratively and get them to do what they are meant to do. We have a lot of professors in academia who are struggling, they are just by themselves, no resources to support their research projects.

“As a professor, less than 50 per cent of your work should just be teaching students in classrooms; it’s a lifelong dedication to research. We will unleash our clinical research, translational research, and basic research because we will put more money into research.

“Because as we do more research, we will begin to be self-dependent on our pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and even on the way we put policy and standard procedure together because these are now homegrown.

“We’ve done trials on Nigerians, and we know how the drug will work better, and which one will not work better. So we will be really moving our research system into a more robust, focused, and directional platform.”

Some gunmen killed a housewife and wounded her husband in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, on Sunday.

The spokesman of the state Police Command, SP Usman Abdullahi, disclosed the unfortunate incident to Daily Trust in a telephone interview.

The incident occurred at the Mile 6 area of Jalingo metropolis of the state.

Abdullahi mentioned that the attackers entered the house of one Mr. Balanko Gamalia and shot him and his wife in an attempt to abduct them.

The wife was reported to have died on the spot while the injured husband is currently receiving treatment at a hospital in Jalingo.

He added that two persons, including a woman, were abducted in the house.

Abdullahi noted that the police are on the trail of the kidnappers.

The police spokesman urged members of the public to provide information to the police to enable them to track down criminal elements in society.

On May 7, gunmen attacked the Care Taker Committee chairman of Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, Mr. Boyi Manja, and killed his Orderly before taking him to an unknown location.

Maja was released by his kidnappers on Thursday, May 11, 2023.

The Fountain of Life Church has begun the burial rites of its founder, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya.

The funeral service started 11am on Saturday at the church’s headquarters in Ilupeju, Lagos State.

Odukoya died on August 7, 2023, in the United States of America. He was 67.

Lamine Yamal became Spain’s youngest ever player and goalscorer as La Roja thrashed Georgia 7-1 on Friday to get their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign back on track.

Defeat by leaders Scotland in their second game left Spain fourth in Group A but they climbed up to second with a big win in Tbilisi, inspired by an Alvaro Morata hat-trick.

However, despite the Atletico Madrid forward’s treble, the game will be remembered for Yamal’s superb first appearance for his country at 16 years and 57 days old.

The Barcelona teenager came on from the bench with Nico Williams after 43 minutes to replace Marco Asensio and Dani Olmo, who had both suffered knocks, with Spain 4-0 up and cruising.

Yamal finished lethally in the 74th minute to send Spain 7-1 up after Williams found him with a cut-back.

Spain face Cyprus in Granada on Tuesday in another Euro 2024 qualifier.

A man identified simply as Ikechi has allegedly killed his father with a pestle in Rumuaghaolu, in the Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Our correspondent learnt that the suspect asked his father for an undisclosed amount of money, but became angry when the deceased turned down his request.

An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the incident happened around 2.45pm on Thursday.

The source said, “He was enraged over the deceased’s refusal to give him money yesterday (Thursday).

“The boy was suspected to be on drugs. He carried a pestle and hit his father.”He said the suspect, on realising what he had done, tried to flee the scene, but was held by some residents after a neighbour raised the alarm.

The spokesperson for the state police command, Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed the incident.

She stated, “Yes, I can confirm the incident. The boy has been arrested and the matter transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department. Investigation is still ongoing. If there are further developments I will let you know. For now, the boy is with us.”

The manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to toss out a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug.

A US federal appeals court imposed restrictions last month on mifepristone but the ruling was put on hold pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Danco Laboratories, which markets mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex, formally asked the nation’s highest court on Friday to take up the case.

The Justice Department is expected to file a brief supporting Danco’s request for the Supreme Court to review the ruling by the lower court.

Last month’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals would limit the use of mifepristone to the first seven weeks of pregnancy, instead of the current 10, and block it from being distributed by mail.

It would also require the abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of the abortions in the United States, to be prescribed by a doctor.

Anti-abortion groups are seeking to have mifepristone banned, claiming despite its long track record that it is unsafe. The case is the latest skirmish in the battle over reproductive rights in the United States.

The appeals court panel said the Food and Drug Administration, which approved the abortion pill in 2000 and made it more readily available in 2016, “failed to address several important concerns about whether the drug would be safe for the women who use it.”

At a hearing in May, the judges pushed back against government arguments that the decision on whether to allow the use of mifepristone should be left to the FDA.

In its brief to the Supreme Court, Danco said the 5th Circuit ruling “upends FDA-approved conditions of use for Danco’s drug Mifeprex.

“It does so at the request of a group of plaintiffs who do not prescribe or use the drug and whose real disagreement with FDA is that they oppose all forms of abortion,” Danco said.

The case stems from an earlier ruling by a conservative US District Court judge in Texas that would have banned mifepristone.

The 5th Circuit blocked a ban on the abortion pill but imposed restrictions on access.

Conservatives wield a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion in a landmark ruling in June of last year.

Since then, some 20 states, mostly in the South and the Midwest, have prohibited abortion outright or restricted access while others, mainly on the coasts, have moved to protect it.

The FDA estimates that 5.6 million Americans have used mifepristone to terminate pregnancies since it was approved in 2000.

President Bola Tinubu arrived the International Media Centre, Bharat Mandapam in India for the 2023 G-20 summit on Saturday, September 9, where he plans to attract global capital and promote increased foreign direct investments in Nigeria’s economy.

Tinubu is in New Delhi, the capital of India, for a six-day official visit, during which he will attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit amongst other engagements.

The summit in India will hold on September 9 and 10, and the President is expected return to Nigeria immediately following the conclusion of the Summit.

The Council of State, France’s top court for handling complaints against the government, has upheld a policy banning school students from wearing abayas — a long, overflowing garment worn by mostly Muslim women.

Muslim advocates had petitioned the top court to rescind the government’s ban on abaya, claiming it was discriminatory.

However, on Thursday, the court ruled in favour of the restriction, adducing their ruling to a French law that “prohibits the wearing by pupils of signs or clothing ostensibly expressing religious affiliation, either in and of themselves, or because of the pupil’s behaviour.”

“This ban does not seriously violate and is not manifestly illegal to the right to respect for private life, the freedom of religion, the right to education … or the principle of non-discrimination,” the court held, opposing claims that the ban violates “several fundamental freedoms.”

The Action for the Rights of Muslims (ADM) had filed a motion for an injunction to prevent President Emmanuel Macron from imposing the ban on the abaya.

The ban was announced last month on the basis that it violates the freedom and rights of its wearers.

ADM’s attorney, Vincent Brengarth, claimed that Mr Macron used the ban to score cheap political points. Sihem Zine, the association’s president, called the new ban “sexist” because it only applied to women, particularly those of Arab descent.

But the French education ministry countered the argument, saying the abaya made its wearers “immediately recognisable as belonging to the Muslim religion”.

According to Gabriel Attal, France’s education minister, at least 67 of 300 schoolgirls were sent home on Monday after they bluntly refused to take off their abayas.

Past and present governors have pardoned no fewer than 536 inmates across the 240 custodial centres between January and August 2023, the PUNCH gathered on Thursday.

According to the latest summary of inmate population on the website of the Nigerian Correctional Service, the total inmate population was 80,883, out of which 55,257 inmates are awaiting trial and 25,626 are convicted.

Findings revealed that on June 12, Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State pardoned 80 inmates in various correctional centres and approved the immediate payment of their fines to enable them to rejoin their families.

On June 2, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy, approved the release of 49 inmates from various correctional facilities across the state.

On May 30, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State announced the release of 49 prison inmates.

On May 28, former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, pardoned eight convicts on death row and 13 other prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.

On May 27, the Yobe State Governor, Mai Buni, pardoned 115 prisoners selected from various correctional centres across the state.

On May 26, the ex-governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello, pardoned 24 convicts, among whom were those already sentenced to death.

Similarly, he paid N20m in fines for 80 other inmates so they could breathe the air of freedom.

On April 22, former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje pardoned 43 inmates serving various jail terms across the state.

It was reported that on March 25, the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot, released 45 inmates across the state during her visit to the correctional centres.

The Chief Judge visited Ikot Abasi, Eket, Ikot Ekpene, and Uyo correctional centres.On March 7, Ganduje pardoned 12 inmates on death row.

On January 1, the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, granted state pardons to 18 inmates across various correctional facilities within the state.

The Spokesperson, Nigerian Correctional Service, Abubakar Umar, who recently spoke to The PUNCH, said, “The issue of awaiting trial inmates has to do with the prosecuting agency and the trial court. We do not prosecute or hear cases.”

Speaking to The PUNCH on Thursday, a security expert and Managing Director of Beacon Consulting Limited, Kabir Adamu, said that the pardons by governors are part of decongesting the custodial centres, advising that there should be checks and balances so that the objectives are not abused.

A multiple crash involving two vehicles and two motorcycles at Toll Gate along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway early Friday morning claimed two lives while one person was injured.

According to a statement issued by the Spokesperson of Ogun State Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps, Florence Okpe, on Friday morning, the accident happened around 5:11am, and the vehicles involved a Volvo Trailer with registration number T 14223 LA, a Volkswagen bus with registration number KRD132XX and two Boxer Bajaj motorcycles with registration numbers LAR178VL and PKA873VS.

Okpe said the FRSC operatives of the Otta Unit Command carried out a rescue operation.

The FRSC spokesperson said the suspected cause of the fatal crash was wrongful overtaking and excessive speed by the Volvo Trailer.

Okpe said this led to a collision with one of the motorcycles and others involved in the accident.

The statement partly read,

“A total of 3 persons were involved which comprised of 02 male adult and a female adult. One male adult was injured while 02 were recorded dead from the crash. 01 male adult and 01 female adult.

“The suspected cause of the fatal crash was wrongful overtaking and excessive speed on the truck driver’s part which led to the collision with a Boxer motorcycle with registration number LAR 178 VL. This also led to a crash in the second vehicle with the number (KRD132XX, Volkswagen) and another motorcycle with registration number PKA873VS respectively. The dead victims were deposited at the Ifo General Hospital morgue.”

Former Rivers State Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has called for the suspension of Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and former Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal from the party. 

Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, September 7, Wike claimed that PDP lost the presidential election because of high-handedness, greed and impunity. 

Wike further commended Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court for a j’ob well done.’ He stated that the judgment which affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory was profound as it was based on sound judgement in terms of technicality and practicality.

He said; 

“The will of the people is determined through the ballot box. How could PDP have won the election when you consider the mood of the nation at that time?

“Look at the areas that the PDP did not win because of high-handedness, because of greed because of impunity. If the PDP had done what they were supposed to do, then you could have talked about that.

“There should be equity, there should be justice, there should be fairness and that is why I am calling on the National Working Committee, they should suspend the presidential candidate, suspend people like Aminu Tambuwal so that they can rebuild the party (PDP).”

A Miami woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for fraudulently obtaining over $1 million in pandemic-related loans using the stolen identities of more than 10 individuals and then using those funds for personal expenses, including chartering a private jet and renting a luxury apartment.

Danielle Miller, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to five years in prison and three years of supervised release.

Miller was also ordered to pay restitution in an amount that will be determined at a later date. In March 2023, Miller pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft.

“Ms. Miller isn’t an influencer, she is a convicted felon. She stole the identities of innocent people to steal over $1.2 million in pandemic-relief loans that should have gone to people in need.

In a quest for fleeting social media stardom, Ms. Miller relied on fraud to fund a lavish lifestyle of private jets, luxury apartments and other accoutrements of wealth.

Today’s sentencing should make it crystal clear that curating a high-society social media presence on the backs of hardworking taxpayers is a path to prison, not fleeting fame,” said Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy.

“Danielle Miller stole critical financial support from the hands of people who needed it during one of the most turbulent economic periods in recent history. While other Americans worried about how to keep food on the table, Miller spent her ill-gotten gains on hotels and luxury goods, heartlessly flaunting this fraudulent lifestyle on social media.

Today’s sentence is the result of a collaborative team of investigators committed to uncovering fraud and ensuring taxpayer dollars are going where they should and not into the hands of scammers like Miller,” said Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New England.

“Danielle Miller engaged in a scheme targeted at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, as well as five other state workforce agencies, to fraudulently obtain pandemic-related unemployment benefits in the names of identity theft victims.

Miller also utilized stolen identities to fraudulently apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans.

Miller’s schemes sought to secure more than $1 million in stolen benefits set aside by the federal government to assist Americans struggling with the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to safeguard these critical benefit programs for those who need it,” said Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent-in-Charge, Northeast Region, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General.

From in or around July 2020 through May 2021, Miller devised and executed a scheme to fraudulently obtain pandemic-related relief loans funded by the federal government – including Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as well as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and related unemployment benefits.

To execute the scheme, Miller used the personal identifying information of more than 10 individuals and used fake business names to apply for and receive more than $1 million in government benefits.

Additionally, Miller possessed counterfeit driver’s licenses in the victims’ names but bearing Miller’s photograph. In August 2020, Miller used a counterfeit driver’s license in the name of a Massachusetts victim to arrange a Gulfstream private jet charter flight from Florida to California, where she stayed at a luxury hotel under the same victim’s name.

In a separate instance, Miller used the identity of another victim to rent a luxury apartment in Florida.

Miller maintained an active social media presence via her Instagram account, which had more than 34,000 followers.

There, Miller posted her extravagant use of the fraud proceeds and stolen identities, publicizing her purchasing of luxury goods and renting of luxury accommodations.

Posts to this account included a post showing Miller at luxury hotels in California where transactions were made using the bank account in one of the victim’s names.

Bauchi State Government has reiterated its commitment to squarely addressing issues of climate change in the state in order to keep the citizens safe and secure.

The assertion was made by the Commissioner, Ministry of Housing and Environment, Rt Hon Danlami Ahmed Kawule during a One-Day Worksop and Panel Discussion on Climate Change held at Whitehill Luxury Hotel and Apartment, Bauchi on Thursday.

He stressed that the Government is committed to improving the issues of environment through the various policies and programmes in the past 4 years thereby ensuring that people live in secure and safe environment.

According to him, “The Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir is a digital Governor, he is always following the global happenings and taking corrective measures to mitigate environmental issues.”

The Commissioner urged the participants to discuss well and extensively the current trend in the climate change atmosphere in order to come out with more ways of intervening in climate change.

Earlier, the Director General of Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA), Dr Ibrahim Kabir stated that the impact of climate change cannot be overemphasised because according to him, the effects are now here close to us.

According to him, “Before now, when we talk about climate change, we use foreign countries as examples but now, we have it with us, we can see it, we can feel it. It is a reality, we don’t have to go far away.

“The trees are gone, the green areas are turning brown, dried and gone. As it is now, there is no difference between the Northern and Southern zones of the state. Desertification is gradually getting worse. We must stand up and act swiftly to save the environment.”

Ibrahim Kabir stressed that, “We need to put our heads together on how to get out of the situation. That is the reason we are here. Let us talk, discuss, and come out with resolutions to tackle the issue.”

The workshop which was collaboration between University of Sheffield, UK, LO-ACT, BASEPA, ACReSAL, Bauchi Project Office, has as theme: ‘Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities’ while the topic was Urban Innovation for Climate Change: Experiences in Bauchi.

A man identified as Alhaji Kamal has alleged that a medical doctor (name withheld) based in Jos, Plateau State, hassted his wife’s kidney during a surgical operation without his consent or that of the family.

Addressing newsmen, Kamal, who is a Jos-based businessman, narrated that the incident occurred in 2018 when his wife, Kehinde Kamal, approached a hospital along Yanhanu at Nasarawa Gwom area of Jos North local area of the state as a result of stomach pain.

According to him, his wife was diagnosed with appendicitis and was therefore recommended for a surgical operation, which was eventually carried out and adjudged by the hospital to be successful.

Sometimes, in January 2018, my wife Kehinde Kamal complained of pains around her abdomen and was taken to a private hospital along Yanshanu-Nasarawa of Jos North Local Government Area.

She was diagnosed as suffering from an appendix and needed to be operated upon.

“We paid for the full cost of the operation, drugs, and other expenses as directed by the doctor, and the operation was consequently carried out.

“Shortly after the operation, she started complaining of severe pains. We managed the pains for years while visiting the same doctor, but all of a sudden, just a few days ago, towards the end of August, the pains got extreme, and we had to go to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), where it was confirmed that one of her kidneys had been removed by some doctors.

“We later visited a specialist in a private hospital in Jos, and it was confirmed that my wife had her kidney removed. What I want is justice. I want the world to know that this is the predicament that my wife is passing through,” Alhaji Kamal alleged.

Alhaji Kamal said the case has been reported to the Nasarawa Gwom Division of the Plateau State Police Command, while the spokesman, Plateau Command DSP Alfred Alabo, could not be reached.

Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has signed a development loan agreement worth 30 million dollars with Uganda to finance the African country’s heart institute project.

The deal was inked between the CEO of the SFD, Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad and Ugandan Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija, in Uganda’s capital Kampala.

Ugandan Minister of Health Ruth Aceng and several other officials attended the signing ceremony, local media reported.

According to reports, the agreement aims to bolster Uganda’s healthcare sector and provide support for its third five-year National Development Plan, which stipulates the country’s medium-term strategic direction, development and priorities.

It would also implement strategies, with the goal of enhancing productivity and social well-being, the report added.

The Heart Institute project was initiated in line with the plan, encompassing establishing medical facilities, introducing cutting-edge medical and technical equipment, holding medical training, and expanding the capacity of cardiac disease prevention and treatment.

The project is expected to benefit more than 62,400 individuals, create job opportunities within the medical sector, and boost the local economy.

Aman has been accused on Thursday of murdering his 100-year-old grandmother with an axe as she sat in a wheelchair.He went on a trial in the northern German city of Hamburg on a charge of homicide.

“He could not cope with looking after her,’’ the prosecuting lawyer told the court.

The prosecuting lawyer described how the accused, a 37-year-old German born in Estonia, attacked the woman in her Hamburg home in the early hours of March 6.

The woman, who suffered from dementia, received at least 16 blows to her head and neck as she attempted to defend herself.

According to the prosecution, she fell to the ground and broke her shoulder.She died as a result of spinal injuries.

The accused phoned the emergency services himself to say that he had killed his grandmother, who was dead when police arrived.

The man gave himself up without resistance.

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his happiness with the ruling of the Presidential Elections Petition Court confirming the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Vice President Kashim Shettima in the February 25 presidential election.

The former President, in a statement, issued by his former spokesperson Garba Shehu on Wednesday night said the PEPC has “written history” by spurning intimidation and all manner of prejudice to deliver justice according to the law.

“If anybody has won today it is the democracy and the people,” adding “with the verdict of the Supreme Court, the election period is over and it is time to put the heat and dust behind us.

“From here, the new APC administration led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu should get the support of everyone in order to deliver the promises it made to the people.”

The former President also voiced his appreciation to all citizens for maintaining peace throughout this period and prayed for continued progress and development under the APC government.

Mr Buhari also sent warm congratulations to the President, the Vice President and the APC on the victory in court, expressing his best wishes to them in fulfilling the people’s aspirations.