According to the Presidency, the results of the presidential and national assembly elections held on February 25 remain valid until otherwise established in court, despite allegations of irregularities and harsh criticism of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Additionally, it ruled out the possibility of annulling the presidential elections, as was done on June 12, 1993, and advised disgruntled opposition party candidates to seek legal redress instead.

This information was provided in a piece by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, that summarized the most important lessons learned from the President's recent trip to Doha, Qatar, where he attended the 5th United Nations summit on Least Developed Countries. According to report, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party called for the election to be completely annulled due to irregularities long before INEC declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the winner.

Ifeanyi Okowa and Yusuf Datti, the vice presidential candidates for the PDP and the LP, respectively, demanded fresh elections nationwide at a press conference held in Abuja on Monday, February 27. They claimed INEC had failed to electronically transfer results from the BIVAS to the iREV portal right away after collation at the polling places. However, the electoral umpire continued with the vote-counting process, which resulted in Tinubu receiving more than eight million votes to become the next president. Since then, the opposing PDP and LP and the ruling APC have assembled their legal teams in preparation for courtroom conflict.

However, the Presidency asserts that Buhari resisted responding to "wishful thinkers'" criticism of INEC because he had long decided not to make any choices that would jeopardize the electoral process.

In response to the clamor, President Buhari chose to travel internationally in addition to muting himself: "Bola Tinubu's election remains. Go to court if you feel wronged and have the legal right to do so,' the statement advised. The presidency claimed that in the lead-up to Buhari's visit to Qatar, he faced coordinated efforts to sway public opinion against national institutions, particularly the conduct of the presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission as an institution, which was the target of deplorable and unproven accusations.

Shehu asserts that "the clear intent of this was to incite fear, divide the populace, and demonize the President's administration. "The wishful thinkers seemed to believe that a repeat of the worst election crisis since the Civil War, which occurred on June 12, 1993, was possible. "Those who attempted this forgot what the President said at the Gbong-Gwon Jos palace when he visited the city to launch the Tinubu-Shettima campaign: "This election will not be annulled; whoever is elected president will be."

The presidential spokesman reiterated what Buhari repeatedly said to world leaders in Qatar about handing the reins over on May 29, 2023, to a new President.

It was reported that the President on Tuesday had a conversation with Mohsen Mansouri, the Iranian vice president, in which he urged continued economic cooperation with the incoming administration, particularly in the fields of energy, infrastructure, and culture. Additionally, Buhari urged Nigerians living in Qatar to support Tinubu's administration "so that Nigeria will continue to be the glimmer of hope and prosperity on our continent and a model for other African nations to follow."