Lai Mohammed, minister of
information, has asked Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), to stop “overheating the polity”.
Addressing a press conference in
Abuja on Thursday, Mohammed advised Atiku not to give the impression that he
does not have confidence in the country’s judicial system.
The minister said this following
reports that the PDP candidate hired a US lobbyist to advance his bid to take
over power from President Muhammadu Buhari.
Although, Atiku denied the
allegation, Mohammed said the presidential candidate had been resorting to
desperation which has dire consequences.
“As you must have noticed in
recent times, posters bearing the picture of former vice-president and the
presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, with the inscription:
‘THE PUKKA, H.E. ATIKU ABUBAKAR, THE REAL AND THE RIGHT’, have surfaced across
major streets in Abuja,” he said.
“The appearance of these posters
coincide with the media report that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has hired a US
lobbying firm to convince the United States not to recognise the re-election of
President Buhari until the Supreme Court has ruled on the suit by the PDP
presidential candidate.
“The posters and the hiring of US
lobbyists, the latest of such by the PDP candidate, have triggered questions
about what Alhaji Abubakar is up to. Is he starting a fresh campaign after the
elections have been won and lost?
“Has he rescinded his decision to
challenge the results of the presidential election in court, perhaps after
realizing that the results he claimed to have obtained from the INEC back
server are cooked? Is he now going for self-help? What really is Atiku’s
motive?
“Yes, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has
lost an election. But he will not be the first or the last person to lose an
election, and he should realize that losing an election is not the end of the
world. He has
challenged the result of the
election in court.
“That’s just as well. However, he
should not give the impression that he does not have confidence in the judicial
process, which is what resorting to self-help implies. He should stop
overheating the polity and quit trying to instigate a political crisis in Nigeria.
“No citizen, no matter how highly
placed, is above the laws of the land. Enough is enough!”
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