The All Progressives Congress and the Federal Government on Thursday derided the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
The tribunal had on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by Atiku and the PDP challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC at the February 23, 2019 presidential election.
The PDP and Atiku had said that they would challenge the judgment, which they described as subversion of justice, at the Supreme Court.
The judges compared the evidence provided by Atiku to “a drop in the ocean.”
But on Thursday, the APC National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, boasted that the PDP would always lose to the ruling party even if it took its petition to the World Court.
Oshiomhole, who spoke with State House correspondents after meeting with Buhari on Thursday, mocked the PDP, saying that the Supreme Court would merely adopt the judgment of the tribunal, since the opposition really had no evidence to substantiate its petition.
He had visited Buhari in company with the APC women leaders led by the National Women Leader, Hajia Salamatu Umar-Eluma.
He said, “We as a party we are confident that if it is within the Nigerian law for the PDP to go even to the World Court, we will meet them there. The Supreme Court of Nigeria is not that of the PDP or the APC. The Supreme Court is governed by law and it’s to interpret the evidence before the Court of Appeal. They are not at liberty to introduce new issues, neither can they bring in new witnesses.
Source: Punch Newspaper
