The All Progressives Congress (APC) has blasted Atiku Abubakar, a former vp and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) within the 2023 presidential election, for regularly blaming it for the festering rot in his celebration and the spectacular dysfunction of opposition events typically.
In accordance with the ruling celebration, Atiku, on the nationwide convention on Strengthening Democracy in Nigeria held in Abuja on Monday, warned that judicial involvement in electoral issues considerably imperils the nation‘s democracy.
APC, in an announcement by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, flayed the previous president for alleging that President Bola Tinubu was paying assured opposition leaders a whooping N50 million every to discombobulate opposition events within the nation.
“Within the Atiku period as Vice President, significantly in 2003 and 2007, the PDP carried out the worst elections in our political historical past. We can’t presumably neglect how Atiku’s PDP heavy-handedly captured most South-West states and vowed to stay in energy for 60 years.
“It was in those self same years that Atiku’s former boss after which President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, infamously described the election as a „do or die affair“ in a determined try and annex Lagos.
“If democracy was neither derailed nor endangered in these perilous days, is it now that elections are freer, fairer and extra credible that Nigeria dangers shedding democracy?
“The judicial department of presidency is a constitutional creation like the chief and legislative branches with its constitutionally outlined powers to adjudicate disputes amongst residents and between residents and the state.
„Atiku can’t want away or search to abolish enshrined energy of the courts to intervene in civil disputes, together with electoral disputes, in instances the place a litigant validly invokes the authority of the court docket.
“It’s ironic that Atiku, Nigeria’s most prolific electoral litigator, would make such a ridiculous declare that judicial involvement in electoral issues threatens democracy. His criticism of the courts and the electoral course of rings hole, given his lengthy historical past of utilizing the courts to additional his political agenda. It’s time for him to step again and let the democratic course of unfold with out his interference.
“Atiku‘s allegation that the APC-led administration was paying out 50 Million Naira to some opposition figures is just bogus and laughable. Atiku is aware of his political desperation is chargeable for the PDP’s catastrophic disintegration. Peddling rumours and unsubstantiated allegations needs to be beneath anybody within the standing of an elder statesman, a former Vice President and a serial contestant for the exalted workplace of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The weird suggestion by opposition figures like Atiku, Peter Obi, and not too long ago, aggrieved leaders like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that our nice Party could also be complicit within the inner corrosion of opposition events is pitiful and solely an incompetent alibi for his or her crass failure to handle their affairs.
They can’t govern their events however tout their potential to rule Africa’s most populous nation.
“As discerning residents, Nigerians know higher than to be distracted by the false alarm and hole allegations of determined politicians whose solely objective is to shore up their political relevance within the 2027 common elections,“ he added.
