# The Supreme Court upholds Tinubu’s 2023 election Date: 2023 ## The fact On 26 October 2023 Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed petitions and upheld [Tinubu](/people/econ-actor-bola-tinubu)’s election. ## Context 25 February election sat as parent. Neighbouring INEC-contest row is the cost twin. He did not sit as the Court. Election 2023 is the parent. INEC-contest row is the cost twin. The President of Nigeria heads the federal executive, assents to bills, and sets CBN weather through appointments. He does not write an NNPCL pump print, a World Bank poverty line, an INEC certificate, or a state governor’s FAAC spend by himself. A 2027 ballot is not this page’s completed Fact. Chicago-State certificate weather remains allegation unless a court so holds on its own row. ## Evidence and sources Supreme Court of Nigeria carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed apex-court uphold of a contested presidential result. ## What is established and what is not Established: 26 October 2023 Supreme Court judgment, independently reported. Not established: that every INEC complaint was thereby uniquely false, or a unique later turnout coefficient. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He was the respondent. Petitioners lost.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Supreme Court upholds Tinubu’s 2023 election, not a later speech about The Supreme Court upholds Tinubu’s 2023 election. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Supreme Court upholds Tinubu’s 2023 election on 2023-10-26 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Court of Nigeria communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Supreme Court upholds Tinubu’s 2023 election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Court held. He was the respondent. Petitioners lost. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Bola Ahmed Tinubu: https://factrail.ai/people/bola-tinubu ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-supreme-court-upholds-tinubu-election-win-2023-10-26/ - https://www.supremecourt.gov.ng/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ng-sc-2023