Senators-elect would be presented their certificates on Tuesday while members of the House of Representatives-elect would receive theirs on Wednesday.
The party urged the opposition to emulate world leaders who had already congratulated Mr Tinubu.
Given the Nigerian context, INEC’s approach of using accreditation figures as the basis for calculating voter turnout is faulty.
The association said an engineer as INEC chairman was more suited for the job than a professor of political science or history.
Mr Reuben Fasoranti asked Mr Tinubu to unite the country and treat every Nigerian as one in the “spirit of federalism”.
According to him, some officials, during the elections, deliberately refused to use the BVAS machines for their selfish interests.
But speaking, Mr Onaiyekan described the outcome of the exercise as “tragically questionable results” most especially the “consequent legitimacy” of Mr Tinubu, who was declared
One of the things we are dissatisfied about in the last election was the few appointees of the state government that smuggled themselves in as INEC ad hoc staff.
“This is the time for us to rise up in faith and not time to mourn. The church must be prayerful and cautious and have to think from the inside,” the governor said.
INEC declared PDP candidates winner of the three senatorial seats and nine of the 12 House of Representatives seats in Rivers.
