Following protest to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has asked the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar to stick to his decision to seek redress in court and avoid constituting obstacle to road users in the guise of pursuing a stolen mandate.
It would be recalled that leaders of the PDP had on Monday marched to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) where they presented a protest to the electoral umpire challenging the shoddy conduct of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, and also demanded the resignation of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman.
However, the Tinubu/ Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) expressed surprise that the former Vice President had approached the court to challenge the result of the presidential poll but still went ahead to mobilise protesters to disrupt the free flow of traffic in the capital city on a Monday morning.
The PCC said that PDP and Atiku would not get any relief from the handful of protesters they assembled and should instead spend precious time assembling evidence to support their claim.
The organisation stated, “The only recourse open to Atiku after the electoral umpire declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, is the Election Petition Tribunal.
“Instead of Atiku and his party to spend their time gathering the so-called evidence they hope to present before the courts, they are busy dancing ‘skelewu’ on the streets and causing traffic nuisance to residents of the Federal Capital Territory who were going to work on a Monday morning.
“We don’t expect a former Vice President of Nigeria, a statesman and a presidential candidate to be so jobless as to have time to disturb public peace over an electoral outcome he had already said he would challenge in court.
The group added, “We want to admonish Alhaji Atiku to respect his age and the high office of the Vice President of Nigeria he once occupied. He should stop being tele-guided by Dino Melaye, who disclosed scandalously that N400 billion was wasted on the election, which was clear at the outset that Atiku was bound to lose.
“Atiku should avoid being misdirected by other court jesters in his party, who continued to campaign after the election, still spewing their inanities against the president-elect. They are mere comic characters in a travelling theatre group.
“The INEC headquarters is not a court where the prayers of Alhaji Atiku can be answered. No amount of theatrical display will give him succour. The honourable and lawful path to take is for Atiku to get his lawyers to plead his case in court.
“We wonder how Atiku and his party hoped to win, when he himself admitted that Peter Obi, his running mate in 2019, ran away with traditional PDP votes from the South-East and South-South,” APC/PCC added.
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