The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election, Mr Atiku Abubakar said he is taking on President Bola Tinubu to enthrone truth, morality, and accountability in public affairs.
Atiku stated this at a press conference held yesterday in Abuja.
He said documents from the Chicago State University (CSU) in Illinois revealed that Tinubu presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Atiku said he would give up the fight only if the Supreme Court rules in favour of the president.
“If the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he (Tinubu) is right — so that’s the end of the fight because at the moment we are at the Supreme Court and there is no any other court (higher) than the Supreme Court,” he said.
He said elections are established and governed by laws adding that the “constitution prescribes the requirements for those who seek the highest elective office in the land.”
Our elections are established and governed by law and founded on the constitution from which leadership and government in Nigeria alone derive their legitimacy.
“We are called upon again as a people to uphold and defend the ground rules of elective government in our country.
We undertook this journey at great cost and for important reasons. The ground rules for legitimate governance in our country need to be upheld, and the reputation of our country is at stake. That affects everyone, Nigerians everywhere,” he stated.
The PDP presidential candidate therefore urged the standard bearers of the other major political parties to key to campaign for probity in government.
“This quest is not for or about Atiku Abubakar. It is a quest for the enthronement of truth, morality, and accountability in our public affairs. In line with this, therefore, I am calling on all well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of thought, our religious leaders, our traditional leaders, our community leaders, our political leaders, and in particular, Governor Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and, the leaders of every political party in Nigeria, and, indeed, every single person who loves this country, as I do, and who wishes nothing but the best for the country, as I do, to join me in this campaign to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality and uprightness in our country and in our government. This is a task for each and every one of us,” he stressed.
