The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25, 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, and members of his team have queried the presence of the water mark of the Tinubu legal team on Certified True Copies of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court currently trending on social media.
In fact, the PDP candidate’s team is demanding explanations from the Court over the unconventional development.
Spokesperson for the Atiku team, Phrank Shaibu, made the demand in a statement in Abuja, on Saturday.
He noted that it was curious that after causing needless delay in availing the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his legal team Certified True Copies of its judgment, the court should explain what happened to Nigerians.
He said, “It is not our intention to stir up controversy on the matter, but it is very important that the PEPC should tell Nigerians why they chose to affix the header of the Respondents on the CTC copy of their judgment, whereas the copies that went to the petitioners did not have the same.
“Was that because the Tinubu Legal Team is deemed to be accorded special privileges? The court must explain!
“It is very clear that there are many questions begging for answers, including why the PEPC came to the decision to avail the Respondents, especially the Tinubu Legal Team to have a first receipt of the CTC of the judgment before the Plaintiffs.
“The curiosity is more confounding based on the fact that the lead counsel to Atiku and the PDP had pleaded in the open court to have express receipt of the judgment, to which Justice Haruna Tsammani agreed to and promised to make the document available the following day, which was Thursday.
entire judiciary of Nigeria into disrepute.
“Make no mistake about it. This legal challenge to the electoral banditry of February 25, which has now shifted to the apex court, is not about Atiku.
“It is indeed our last ditch effort to salvage our country and deepen our democracy. Against the background of the decimation of nearly all of the institutions of state including the Independent National Electoral Commission which dragged us into this quagmire, our intent is to ensure that the judiciary, the last hope of the common man does not go to the dogs,” he said. (Culled from Vanguard)
