The Federal Government has asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar to allow the court to determine the merits or otherwise of his petition against the winner of the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.
It said it was wrong for the former Vice President to resort to self-help in his desire to claim victory in the election.
: “As you must have noticed in recent times, posters bearing of former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, with the inscription: ”THE PUKKA, H.E. ATIKU ABUBAKAR, THE REAL AND THE RIGHT”, have surfaced across major Abuja.
“The appearance of these posters coincide with the media report that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has hired a US lobbying firm to convince the United States not to recognize the re-election of President Buhari until the Supreme Court has ruled on the suit by the PDP presidential candidate
“The posters and the hiring of US lobbyists, the latest of such by the PDP candidate, have about what Alhaji Abubakar is up to. Is he starting a after the elections have been won and lost?
“Has he rescinded his decision to challenge the results of the presidential election in court, perhaps after realizing that the results he claimed to have obtained from the INEC back server are cooked? Is he now going for self-help? What really is Atiku’s motive?
“Gentlemen, we of media reports that the PDP presidential candidate on himself from the posters that are circulating in Abuja. reportedly denied hiring US lobbyists, claiming the APC fabricated the report.
“If the media reports , it means that the former Vice President has suddenly realized implication of his actions, hence has decided to beat a before it is too late.
“As a self-avowed , realize that the only lawful channel for challenging the an election is through the courts. Resorting to self-help, as to be doing now, is an act of desperation and the consequences .
