APC replies Atiku; says no plan to intimidate Judiciary
The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reacted to a statement credited to the former president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 25th election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, that the party is plotting to intimidate the judiciary over the anticipated presidential election tribunal verdict.
Atiku, in a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe during the weekend in Abuja, accused APC of plotting to intimidate the judiciary, threaten judges with arrest so that they will bow to their will.
Reacting to the accusation, the
National Publicity Secretary of APC, Barr. Felix Morka, in a statement during the weekend in Abuja said there is no such plan to intimidate the judiciary.
“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. 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.
“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” the statement read.
