Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to undermine the judiciary.
The Labour Party’s (LP) Atiku and Peter Obi are contesting the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) designation of Bola Tinubu, the APC’s nominee, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu’s failure to collect at least 25% of votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was one of the reasons for the challenge.
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Tinubu, however, claimed through his lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, that the FCT is the 37th state for election purposes, and that any other interpretation would “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy, and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.”
Atiku, in a statement signed by his media adviser, Paul Ibe on Saturday, said the APC and agents of Tinubu have “ceaselessly chosen to stand in the way of justice by making “catastrophic threats to anarchy if justice is not served according to their whims.”
“The plot of the APC is simple: intimidate the judiciary, threaten judges with arrest so that they will bow to their will. This is a playbook from 2019, when they removed the CJN and then replaced him with Tanko Muhammad, who himself was later accused of corruption by his colleagues at the Supreme Court and resigned shamefully,” the statement reads in part.
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