Atiku is yet to recover from shock defeat of the last election – Tinubu

Nigeria’s President,  Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that the attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the last general election in the country, Atiku Abubakar, to blackmail the Judiciary will fail.

Tinubu added that Atiku’s latest comment on the result of the election has shown that he has not recovered from the shock defeat of the 2023 presidential election.

He charged Atiku with providing evidence of his administration trying to undermine the Judiciary.

In a statement by his spokesman, Dele Alake, the president said Atiku’s claims were full of innuendos, insinuations and outright lies.

Alake said, “We have read the laughable and jejune statement by former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate in the last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

“It is obvious that having been thoroughly defeated by the All Progressives Congress and now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Vice President has not fully recovered from the shock of defeat, hence the current attempt to mischievously rake up another round of inanities that offend basic logic and rational thinking.

“In the ill-thought-out and illogical statement, Alhaji Atiku accused the current administration of the governing APC of plotting to undermine the Judiciary without providing evidence. Apart from innuendos, insinuations and outright lies contained in the said press statement, the former Vice President Atiku didn’t put forward any convincing argument to support his claims on how the President Tinubu-led administration and APC sought to undercut, undermine and compromise the Judiciary.

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“If the former Vice President believes in democracy and the sanctity of the Judiciary, as claimed, he would not make spurious and wild allegations aimed at disparaging and discrediting an essential arm of government that should serve as the bulwark for our democracy.

“He shamelessly resorted to this cheap attempt to intimidate and blackmail the Judiciary even when he is a party to a case before the Presidential Election Petition Court.

Atiku is yet to recover from the shock defeat of the last election – Tinubu.

“Let it be said that when it comes to fighting for democracy and democratic ideals, the rule of law and independence of Judiciary in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu stands shoulder above Atiku Abubakar. When President Tinubu was leading the charge against the emasculation of the Judiciary and promoting the sanctity of the rule of law as the building block for good governance as Governor of Lagos State between 1999-2007, under a PDP central government, Alhaji Atiku was nowhere to be found.

“It is on record and to his eternal credit that President Tinubu, through the instrumentality of the law and Judiciary, successfully challenged many of the draconian and obnoxious decisions of the PDP-led Federal Government that trampled on the rights of the States as federating units. Under the then Governor Tinubu’s leadership, Lagos State won over 13 cases up to the Supreme Court against the hydra-headed PDP administration at the centre.”

The statement stated that Tinubu could never undermine the Judiciary because he won the last election.

“No leader with such a sterling and enviable credential as a champion of the rule of law and independence of Judiciary like President Tinubu will ever contemplate undermining the Judiciary as alleged by Alhaji Atiku.

“President Tinubu won a free, fair and credible election. The February 25, 2023, Presidential election that produced him is the most transparent election ever conducted in Nigeria since 1999.

“President Tinubu and the APC absolutely have no reason to undermine the judiciary in the hope of any favourable judgement,” he added.