Former Nigerian Vice President who is also the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday called on his co-contestants on the platforms of the Labour Party, Peter Obi; and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to join his judicial adventure in making President Bola Tinubu account for his allegedly forged documents submitted to the electoral commission.
Atiku said this at a world press conference in Abuja, two days after his lawyers through a United States’ court obtained the academic records of Tinubu from the Chicago State University (CSU) which showed alleged discrepancies with what the sitting Nigerian president submitted to the INEC before the February election.
Both Atiku and Obi challenged Tinubu’s election at the Presidential Election Tribunal Court, for months before the tribunal overturned the cases and affirmed the president’s victory.
Though Atiku and Peter Obi’s cases had been dismissed at the Presidential Election Tribunal Court, both candidates have announced they were heading for the higher court, with the PDP candidate hoping to use the alleged forged certificate as a strong case against Tinubu in his appeal to the Supreme Court.
Speaking at the conference, Atiku said, “This quest is not for or about Atiku Abubakar. It is a quest for the enthronement of truth, morality, and accountability in our public affairs.
“In line with this, therefore, I am calling on all well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of thought, our religious leaders, our traditional leaders, our community leaders, our political leaders, and in particular, Governor Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and, the leaders of every political party in Nigeria, and, indeed, every single person who loves this country, as I do, and who wishes nothing but the best for the country, as I do, to join me in this campaign to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality and uprightness in our country and in our government. This is a task for each and every one of us.
“Thank you for listening. May God bless you, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”