…I won’t back down from the petition, says Atiku
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has vowed not to back down on his election petition case currently pending before the Supreme Court.
Atiku, who stated this at a media conference in Abuja on Thursday, October 5, said he would pursue the case to a logical conclusion, whether he wins or loses.
He said: “I will only drop the case when the court rules on it. If the court says I am right, fine. If it says he (President Tinubu) is right, fine.”
While answering a question, Atiku, who contested the February 25 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said a group of serving governors had attempted to persuade him to drop the case at the initiate stage of the trial.
What I discovered from Tinubu’s certificate
The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has revealed certain facts he discovered from the academic records of Tinubu released to him by Chicago State University.
He stated affirmatively that he intends to use the documents in petition in the court.
He further listed five main discoveries from the documents that will be relevant to his case in court.
He said, “1. Bola A. Tinubu forged the certificate he presented to INEC.
“2. The qualifying certificate from Southwest College bears a female indicating it does not belong to Bola A. Tinubu who is a male.
“3. The CSU admission application form has a claim that Bola A Tinubu attended Government College Lagos and graduated in 1970 when the school was established in 1974.
“4. The owner of the CSU Document is a Black American and Bola A. Tinubu denied having dual citizenship in his INEC form which means the documents does not belong to him or he perjured in his INEC Form.
“5. He claimed A in his name in the Chicago documents is Ahmed but the NYSC documents he submitted to INEC has Adekunle.”
More Insight
Reacting to the question on whether he will not drop his case against Tinubu, the former president stated that he will only retreat from his legal battle until after the Supreme Court rule, noting that there is no other court after the supreme court.
