Atiku Abubakar’s claims of judicial intimidation have been dismissed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), who allege they are a desperate attempt to deflect attention from an impending loss in the presidential election tribunal.
This response came on Saturday when APC spokesperson Felix Morka released a statement on the party’s behalf.
The APC and representatives of President Bola Tinubu were accused of tampering with justice by threatening chaos if the court’s ruling went against them, according to Paul Ibe, the PDP’s media adviser to presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Ibe said in his statement that the APC intended to exert pressure on the judges involved in the case and he appealed for international intervention.
“The plot of the APC is simple: intimidate the judiciary, threaten judges with arrest so that they will bow to their will,” the statement read.
Countering the allegations, the APC labelled Abubakar’s claims as “arrant nonsense totally lacking in substance and cogency”.
The party maintained that the opposition candidate had “miserably failed” to establish his case in court, describing his tactics as a “childish attempt” to save face.
“Our attention has been drawn to a press statement by a media aide to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The statement alleges that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its government are engaged in a plot to intimidate members of the judiciary towards unduly influencing the outcome of pending cases before the court,” the statement reads.
“Atiku Abubakar and his minions offered no evidence to support their wild, hollow, and mischievous allegations. Quite frankly, there is nothing in Atiku Abubakar’s statement that is worth a reaction from the APC.
“It is just arrant nonsense, totally lacking in substance and cogency. Its only imaginable purpose is a childish attempt to float an alibi to deflect the shame of a highly probable defeat in court, having miserably failed to make out a credible case to justify his bogus claim that he won the last presidential election.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and our party won the election convincingly. We have full faith and confidence in our courts to dispense electoral justice in accordance with our constitution and all applicable laws.”
Ada Peter
