BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the nation’s judiciary to take a pulse of the nation and reflect it.
Atiku, who stated this in a statement he personally signed while reacting to the Supreme Court ruling on the governorship election in Osun state, said God has placed a great responsibility in the hands of the justices, stressing that it is their duty to ensure that justice is done, irrespective of the pressure to do otherwise, by the powers that be.
He however has said that in spite of the ruling of the Supreme Court on the governorship election in Osun State, the love, acceptance and endorsement that the people of the state bestowed on both Senator Adeleke and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is not over and cannot be overlooked.
Atiku also said that those who think this is the end of the road for Senator Adeleke and the PDP in Osun, are greatly mistaken.
In his words; “This is not the end. Not even the beginning of the end. No. Today marks the continued ascendancy of Senator Adeleke and his party in the hearts and minds of his people.
“They had expected that the progress and development that the Adeleke family had consistently brought to Osun will be translated to their governance. That hope is not dead. Only delayed.”
Atiku said that while the Supreme Court has ruled and because of its judicial finality, the legal case is over, saying; “I join with people of goodwill all over Nigeria to say to Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the people of the great state of Osun, that we stand with them in good times and in difficult days.
“I extend my right hand of brotherhood to Senator Adeleke in all his future endeavours and I assure the good people of the state of Osun that the Peoples Democratic Party remembers their love and acceptance and will never forget to stand by them no matter the situation.
