The main opposition Party in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given a charge to President Muhammadu Buhari and his party the All Progressives Congress (APC) to give up his seat in the presidency to its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
This was made known by the PDP as they stood on their ground that
Abubakar was given the mandate by Nigerians freely, and as such,
President Buhari should ‘do the needful’ and surrender the presidency to
Atiku.
The party then asked asked Buhari and APC to quit with all their
unnecessary fabrications and smear campaign and instead prepare to face
its legal team at the presidential election tribunal.
In a statement released on Monday, and signed by its spokesperson,
Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said Buhari is” overweighed by the burden of
illegitimacy, following overwhelming evidence before the tribunal that
he stole the Presidential mandate, hence this lame attempt at
blackmailing the tribunal by engaging in clear acts of subjudice.”
The opposition party revealed that the “facts and issues touching on
the INEC server are already within the public domain and Nigerians are
already at home with them.
“By resorting to shadow-boxing outside the tribunal, President Buhari
and the APC have shown that they have no defence to present to the
court against PDP’s submission that they stole our mandate.
“It is even more appalling that Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria (SAN) and a member of Buhari’s legal team, who should know
better, would engage in this act of subjudice designed to distort facts
already known to Nigerians, that our Presidential Candidate and former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, clearly won the February 23 Presidential
election.
“Since it has become clear that President Buhari has no defence to
present to the court, we counsel him to save the nation further stress
by surrendering our mandate, which was freely given by majority of
Nigerians to Atiku Abubakar,” the statement added.
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