Atiku Urges Tribunal To Sack Tinubu, Says Heavens Won’t Fall
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in February 25, 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar has declared that the heavens would not fall if the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sacks Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president of Nigeria on account of electoral fraud that brought him to office.
Atiku dismissed Tinubu’s threat of a possible crisis if he was sacked as an empty one deployed to scare members of the Tribunal from upholding justice in the petition challenging Tinubu’s election.
The PDP candidate therefore urged members of the Tribunal to summon the needed courage to do substantial justice to his petition seeking the nullification of Tinubu as winner of the election.
Atiku, who stated these in his final written address presented by lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, noted the courageous position of the Supreme Court in the case of Rotimi Amaechi, where the Apex Court held that heavens would not fall when justice is done in the manner prescribed by law.
Atiku also urged the Tribunal to invoke the courage displayed in the past Supreme Court judgment to settle his petition against Tinubu by disregarding the threat of monumental chaos issued by Tinubu to shield himself from justice.
The PDP Presidential candidate said that Tinubu lost the moral and legal rights to be in office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having admitted a punitive forfeiture of $406,000 United States of America dollars in a narcotics and money laundering related matter.
Atiku also accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), of manipulating the results of the presidential election in the most corrupt manner in favour of Tinubu and thereafter, unlawfully proclaimed him (Tinubu) winner of the election.
Citing the brazen subversion of the popular will of the voters by INEC in favour of Tinubu, Atiku prayed that the proclamation of the electoral body should be voided and set aside and in its place, declare him winner of the election having convincingly scored the majority of the lawful votes.
