*No use going to Supreme Court —PDP chieftain.
Atiku Abubakar.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has assured his supporters that he would retrieve “our stolen” mandate.
In a brief message to supporters on Wednesday, in Abuja, the Director of Public Affairs of the PDP Presidential Campaign Committee, Senator Dino Melaye noted that the battle is already underway to correct the "grave injustice" done to Atiku by INEC declaring Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election, Daily Post reports.
Melaye said: “A clarion call on all Atiku’s supporters all over the world not to be perturbed. Weeping may tarry till night but joy cometh in the morning. This grave injustice shall not stand.
“The battle to retrieve our stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender. We shall overcome.”
Also reacting, the spokesman for Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala said that Tinubu’s victory has been greeted with a "graveyard silence," indicating that something was wrong.
In a series of tweets, Bwala described the election as a "2023 presidential allocation”
criminally executed by some "Nigerians and foreign agents."
Bwala wrote: “Victory celebrated with graveyard silence. Something is just not right.
“This February 2023 election otherwise called “2023 presidential allocation” will run down in the history of this country as the most criminally organized election with high-level precision between Nigerians and foreign agents.”
No justice at the Supreme Court —Olumide.
Meanwhile, a member of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Akinrinlola Olumide on Wednesday expressed his lack of confidence in Nigeria's Supreme Court, as presently constituted to dispense justice to parties aggrieved at the outcome of the presidential election.
Olumide cited recent controversial judgments given by the Supreme Court on pre-election matters as the reason it may be futile to seek justice there, according to a report by Sahara Reporters.
In a statement on Wednesday, he advised LP's Peter Obi and PDP's Atiku Abubakar not to waste their time on filing lawsuits against APC's Bola Tinubu in respect of the February 25 2023 presidential election.
Olumide said: "I advise my party, the PDP, and Labour Party to come together and unite ahead of the March 11, 2023 governorship and state assembly elections across Nigeria. Both of them should come together, work together and focus on the next election.
"Since every case ends at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, I advise the duo of Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar not to institute any case against Tinubu-APC in the just concluded 2023 presidential election.
"Justice Ariwoola’s Supreme Court should not be troubled following its recent controversial judgments on pre-election matters in the country which generated public outcry and made a lot of educated Nigerians lose confidence in her administration of justice, especially on political cases.
"If this observation is correct, going to the court to file a case against the outcome of the presidential election which will end at the Supreme Court, will be an exercise in futility taking cognizance of the above.
"I, therefore, call on his Excellency, the incoming president of Nigeria, Senator Bola Tinubu, to form a government of national unity involving the Labour Party and the PDP considering the division in the country amid the religious and tribal sentiments this election has caused with the North embracing Atiku, while the Southwest voted for Tinubu, amid the Southeast’s supports for Obi.
"The outcome of the election shows that the division among Nigerians across tribal and religious sentiments is at its peak. Tinubu’s presidency must do something urgently to arrest this.
Olumide acknowledged that INEC was not transparent in its conduct of the election, and thereby undermined the credibility of the polls.
"It is also on record that INEC was not transparent in the conduct of this election considering the abuse of the electoral processes whereby BVAS was used in some areas for accreditation and bypassed in some areas as well as the double standard of the electoral umpire (INEC) over the electronic transmission of election results amidst its outright failure to transmit most of the polling unit results.
"This action by INEC has undermined the transparency and credibility of the just concluded 2023 presidential election.
"It may be difficult for Senator Tinubu to unite Nigeria if the two leading opposition parties are not incorporated into the government to douse tension and mitigate the division already created by the outcome of the election among the three major tribes in the country," the statement said.
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