The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress-led federal government to intimidate judges handling the presidential election petitions to deliver judgment in their favour.
Atiku said in a statement by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, that the election that brought the current government into office was the worst in the annals of democratic politics in the country.
“It is regrettable that the APC and, indeed, agents of President Bola Tinubu have ceaselessly chosen to stand in the way of justice by making catastrophic threats to anarchy if justice is not served according to their whims.
“The plot of the APC is simple; intimidate the judiciary; threaten judges with arrest so that they will bow to their will. This is a playbook from 2019 when they removed the CJN and then replaced him with Tanko Muhammad, who himself was later accused of corruption by his colleagues at the Supreme Court and resigned shamefully”, he said.
But the APC has denied plotting to influence judicial officers towards winning the pending cases against it in court as alleged by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, Atiku Abubakar.
In a statement on Saturday in Abuja, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix described Atiku’s allegation as “arrant nonsense.”
“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”, he said.
