Tinubu Is Nigeria’s President-Select Not President-Elect – Atiku’s Camp

The camp of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has described Bola Tinubu as ‘President-make a choice’ and not ‘President-elect’.

It also warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) against the employ of the instrument of blackmail to intimidate the judges of the presidential election petition tribunal.

Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress used to be declared as the ‘President-elect’ by the Objective National Electoral Price after polling the largest quantity of votes in the February 25 election.

The spokesperson for Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala, who gave the warning in an interview with Arise TV said that the election had been performed and a president had been “selected by the INEC, that is their most smartly-most long-established candidate”.

“Now we are in court to say that it used to be a rigged task. As lengthy as there might be not any such thing as a closing chance of the topic, we’ve got every lawful beneath legislation, equity and justice to lend a hand the conception that we categorical – that he’s a President-make a choice and not a President-elect,” he said.

Bwala also said the PDP had seen that in the previous couple of months, the Nigerian authorities beneath the platform of the APC had been the employ of the National Broadcasting Price (NBC) to intimidate media properties in an strive to subdue freedom of expression from the opposition.

Bwala said the governing occasion and the authorities in vitality will continuously are looking out to achieve anything else they’ll to intimidate judges or induce them. He also great that they continuously strive to control the task or confuse the folk. 

The PDP presidential advertising campaign spokesperson said, “Our recount about the adjudication is the identified truth that in Africa, any time a case is taken to court, the governing occasion and the authorities in vitality will continuously are looking out to achieve anything else they’ll to either intimidate the judges, to induce the judges, to control the task or to confuse the folk.

“At that stage, what attain you attain? The choices are two: one is to alter into problematic in the nation adore setting up chaos in every single topic, which to us, isn’t very strengthening democracy.

“The different one is to salvage a world consensus because that is all of the speculation of the United Countries, that countries of the world subscribe to agreements codified in constitution, in conventions, in treaties, in agreements, that the long-established component that binds us together is the rule of legislation, adherence to due task of legislation, non-interference in the establishments of the explain.

“So that you would possibly perhaps attain that, you are going to need the world to peep at Nigeria and stumble on whether we are obeying the foundations.”

Bwala disclosed that they started “participating worldwide media because our danger is that we’ve got seen over the previous couple of months how the authorities of the day is the employ of an establishment of the explain known as Nigerian Broadcasting Price (NBC) to intimidate media properties”.

“The worldwide media are inch by the Nigerian Broadcasting Price that continuously bring draconian military rules in a democratic explain to say that you would possibly perhaps maybe not categorical your self,” he added.

“We have the utmost confidence in the judicial gadget nonetheless what we are announcing is that the authorities, the ruling occasion must not employ what is generally identified as the instrument of blackmail, which is weak to withhold the vitality to intimidate the judges.”