Atiku Abubakar Vows To Pursue Presidential Litigation to Logical Conclusion
The PDP 2023 polls presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has vowed to pursue to a logical conclusion, his ongoing litigation against the outcome of the 2023 presidential poll.
Atiku’s petition challenging the election of president Tinubu in the poll was dismissed by the presidential poll tribunal on Wednesday in Abuja.
The PDP candidate, addressing a world news conference in Abuja on Thursday, said the tribunal delivered a respected judgement, but it lacks substantial justice.
Atiku said he was not new to the legal battle, and has instructed his counsel to approach the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement.
According to him, despite being disappointed by the judgement of the tribunal, it cannot destroy his confidence in the Nigerian judiciary.
The last presidential election in our country and the way it was managed by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, leaves behind unenviable precedents, which I believe the courts have a duty to redress.
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“Our gains in ensuring transparent elections through the deployment of technology was heavily compromised by INEC in the way it managed the last presidential election, and I am afraid that the judgement of the court as rendered by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal yesterday, failed to restore confidence in our dreams of free and fair elections devoid of human manipulations.
“Like I did say at the beginning of this legal battle when I instructed my lawyers to file my petition challenging the outcome of the presidential election, my ultimate goal in this pursuit is to ensure that democracy is further strengthened through the principles and processes of fair hearing.
“Gentlemen of the press, I take great pains to tell you that the decision of the court of first instance on this matter utterly falls far short of that expectation.
“I am therefore here to tell you that, though the judgment of the court yesterday is respected, it is a judgment that I refuse to accept.
“I refuse to accept the judgment because I believe that it is bereft of substantial justice.
