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.
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.”
On Saturday, Atiku stated in a statement signed by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, that the APC and Tinubu’s operatives have “constantly chosen to stand in the way of justice” by issuing “catastrophic threats to anarchy if justice is not served according to their whims.”
“The APC’s plan is simple: intimidate the judiciary, threaten judges with arrest, and force them to bend to their will.” This is a blueprint from 2019, when they deposed the CJN and replaced him with Tanko Muhammad, who was eventually accused of corruption by his Supreme Court colleagues and resigned shamefully,” the statement reads in part.
