Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed how President Bola Ahmed Tinubu allegedly sent some state governors to beg him not to challenge the latter’s victory in this year’s presidential election.
Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate in the February 25 presidential election came third in the keenly contested election in which Tinubu was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Instructively, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, had recently affirmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate the winner of the election.
The PDP candidate has challenged the verdict in the Supreme Court in his quest to overturn Tinubu’s victory.
Speaking during a world press conference on Thursday, Abubakar said he would fight to the end to prove his case in court that Tinubu is not qualified to contest the election, saying that some governors were sent to him immediately after the election not to challenge Tinubu victory.
He said: “Immediately after the elections, I was told there was a delegation of governors who claimed they were sent by the president, and I did not even allow them to get into my house – I didn’t.
“I will only drop the fight when the court rules. If the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he is right, fine. So that’s the end of the fight, because, at the moment, we are the Supreme Court, and there is no other higher court than the Supreme Court.”
The former vice president recently succeeded in his month-long battle to have the Chicago State University, CSU, release the academic records of Tinubu to him.
Abubakar’s lawyers, according to those close to him, are planning to use new evidence to prove that Tinubu is not eligible to contest the election based on the alleged forged certificates he submitted to the electoral umpire.
