Tinubu to Atiku: ‘Your bid to blackmail judiciary will fail’
President Bola Tinubu has replied to the presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar’s call for the intervention of international community over alleged plot to compromise the outcome of his petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Mr Abubakar, in a statement by his spokesman Paul Ibe on Saturday, alleged that there was a ‘sinister plot’ to undermine Nigeria’s judiciary, saying there have been threats from the ruling party that aim to intimidate the judiciary from serving justice.
But Mr Tinubu, in a statement by his spokesman Dele Alake, described Mr Atiku’s allegations as laughable, saying the PDP presidential candidate’s “bid to blackmail the judiciary” would fail.
“We have read the laughable and jejune statement by former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate in the last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
“It is obvious that having been thoroughly defeated by the All Progressives Congress and now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Vice President has not fully recovered from the shock of defeat, hence the current attempt to mischievously rake up another round of inanities that offend basic logic and rational thinking.
“In the ill-thought out and illogical statement, Alhaji Atiku accused the current administration of the governing APC of plotting to undermine the judiciary without providing any shred of evidence. Apart from innuendos, insinuations and outright lies contained in the said press statement, the former Vice President Atiku didn’t put forward any convincing argument to support his claims on how the President Tinubu-led administration and APC sought to undercut, undermine and compromise the judiciary.
“If the former Vice President believes in democracy and the sanctity of the Judiciary, as claimed, he would not engage in making spurious and wild allegations aimed at disparaging and discrediting an important arm of government that should serve as the bulwark for our democracy.
“He shamelessly resorted to this cheap attempt to intimidate and blackmail the Judiciary even when he is party to a case before the Presidential Election Tribunal.
