Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has stated that he will not meet with a team supposedly sent by President Bola Tinubu and that he will only withdraw his complaint against Tinubu’s academic records when the Supreme Court has rendered its decision.
On Thursday, October 5, Atiku announced this at a world press conference in Abuja.
According to Atiku, certain governors claimed to have been sent by Tinubu right after the election and wanted to visit him, but he refused to let them inside his home.
“Immediately after the elections, I was told there was a delegation of governors who claimed they were sent by the president, and I did not even allow them to get into my house – I didn’t,” Atiku said.
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“I will only drop the fight when the court rules. If the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he is right, fine. So that’s the end of the fight, because, at the moment, we are the Supreme Court, and there is no other higher court than the Supreme Court.”
Atiku also urged Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), to join him in the campaign to verify Tinubu’s certificate.
“Let me call on all well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of thoughts, our religious, traditional, community and political leaders and in particular, Governor Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and the leaders of every political party in Nigeria and indeed every single person who loves this country as I do and who wishes nothing but the best for this country as I do, to join me in this campaign to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality, and uprightness in our country and in our government.
“This is a task for every one of us.”
The Supreme Court is currently hearing Atiku’s lawsuit against Tinubu’s academic records. Atiku claims Tinubu faked his academic credentials and is hence unqualified to be president.
