Presidential Election: Supreme Court Judgement Implies Crime Is Good – Atiku

By Ayodele Oni

The greatest loser of 2023 Presidential Election is the Supreme Court, Atiku Abubakar, Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023 Election has declared.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, Atiku stated that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while.

According to him, “Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while.

“By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but Nigeria, if the Supreme Court legitimizes illegality, including forgery, identity theft, and perjury.

“If the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded, then Nigeria has lost and the country is doomed irrespective of who occupies the Presidential seat.

“If the Supreme Court decides that the Electoral umpire, INEC, can tell the public one thing and then do something else in order to reach a corruptly predetermined outcome, then there is really no hope for the country’s democracy and electoral politics.

“Obviously, the consequences of those decisions for the country will not end at the expiration of the current government. They will last for decades. I am absolutely sure that history will vindicate me. We now know what the Supreme Court has decided.

“At critical points in my political life, I always ignored the easy but ignoble path and chosen the difficult but dignified path, the path of truth, of morality, of democracy and rule of law.

“I always chose freedom over servitude, whatever the personal discomforts my choice entails. When I joined politics, the critical challenge was easing the military out of power so that civilian democratic governance could be restored in Nigeria.

“It later became a very defining struggle, and, as one of the leaders of that struggle, I was targeted for elimination.”