The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop “their unnecessary fabrications, smear campaign and prepare to face its legal team at the presidential election tribunal.”
The party said “President Buhari was over-weighed by the burden of
illegitimacy, following overwhelming evidence before the tribunal that
he stole the presidential mandate, hence this lame attempt at
blackmailing the tribunal by engaging in clear acts of subjudice.”
The PDP stated that the facts and issues touching on the INEC server were
already within the public domain and Nigerians were already at home with them.
A statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, which was made available to TheNiche read:
“By resorting to shadow-boxing outside the tribunal, President Buhari and
the APC have shown that they have no defence to present to the court
against PDP’s submission that they stole our mandate.
“It is even more appalling that Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria (SAN) and a member of Buhari’s legal team, who should know
better, would engage in this act of subjudice designed to distort facts
already known to Nigerians, that our presidential candidate and former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, clearly won the February 23 presidential
election.
“Since it has become clear that President Buhari has no defence to
present to the court, we counsel him to save the nation further stress
by surrendering our mandate, which was freely given by majority of
Nigerians to Atiku Abubakar.”
