APC Agenda Is To Impose One-Party System – Atiku Reacts To Unfavorable Court Rulings

APC Agenda Is To Impose One-Party System – Atiku Reacts To Unfavorable Court Rulings

By Kabir Akintayo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has voiced his concerns over recent court rulings that have favoured candidates from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in states governed by opposition parties.

The former Vice-President accused APC, of using the court of law to intimidate the opposition through “snatch, grab and run agenda of other parties’ mandates’, which he said is inimical to democracy.

According to the statement released by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe on Monday, Atiku said that what is playing out now in the Plateau governorship election petition is a confirmation of the threat echoed by an APC, lawmaker in a viral video that the ruling party will compromise the judicial process to ensure its ultimate victory in the courts.

He said “It gets more curious that all the states where the courts have made controversial declarations are states being controlled by the opposition political parties. From Nassarawa, Kano, Zamfara and now to Plateau State, where we are witnessing a situation in which what the ruling party missed out on Election Day are being delivered to them through the courts.”

He added that, APC, has turned the once respected Nigerian judiciary to a “cash and carry” one where politicians who don’t participate in primaries are named as candidates while actual winners of elections are sacked for flimsy reasons.

Atiku further accused President Bola Tinubu of being the mastermind of all the intimidations of oppositions in order to achieve one party system.

“But we are not surprised by what is going on. In Lagos State where Tinubu holds sway as godfather, opposition became an anathema.

“Everyone including judges was forced to join his party. The few opposition members who managed to get elected were beaten to submission including at the Lagos State House of Assembly where the sole PDP member back in 2018 was suspended and arrested for gun running but mysteriously had the charges dropped immediately after he defected to the APC,” Atiku said.

He continued “Apart from the judiciary, Tinubu has already appointed his loyalists as Resident Electoral Commissioners who have now been confirmed by Sen. Godswill Akpabio, his lackey who is supposed to be heading an independent arm of government. This is how the APC plans to impose a one-party state on Nigerians.”

Atiku also questioned why in election cases where the PDP, came first and the APC, came second, the court ordered that the APC, be declared winner while in elections where the PDP, came first and Labour Party came second, the courts ordered a rerun in order to give the APC a chance of victory.