Take Your Defeat Like A Statesman, APC Tells Atiku

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to accept defeat like a statesman.

Recall that the PDP challenged the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu up to the Supreme Court where the apex court ruled in favour of the APC. But Atiku in a press conference held in Abuja on Monday described the judgment of the Supreme Court as having far reaching repercussions.

Nevertheless, the APC in a prompt response to Atiku said it is time for the PDP’S candidate to move on.

APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, further described Atiku’s take on the confirmation of Tinubu’s victory by the Supreme Court as a case of sour grapes.

The statement read in part: “Still bemoaning his electoral loss, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, earlier today, staged a press conference at which he delivered a long, windy, incoherent and preposterous speech unbefitting of a former Vice President.

” In his foggy and contemptuous perspective, the Supreme Court “implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded.” Atiku regurgitated his illusory claim that President Bola Tinubu did not win the February 25, 2023 presidential election. Rather, he soliloquized that they “showed irrefutable evidence of gross irregularities, violence and manipulations during the elections”, allegations that were roundly dismissed by the Presidential Election Petitions Court and the Supreme Court as unsubstantiated and unproven”.

“Strikingly, nowhere in his long epistle of a press statement did Atiku state that he won the election, corroborating the courts’ finding and decision that he did not, in fact, win the election.

“It is delusional for Atiku, and his degenerate PDP, to have expected the courts to rely on their bogus, flimsy, unverifiable, uncorroborated, illogical and hearsay evidence to upturn an election that was conducted in substantial compliance with the Constitution and electoral laws of our land”. Thankfully, it does not lie in Atiku’s mouth to declare what constitutes “incontrovertible evidence”.