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Election: Real reasons I am challenging Tinubu’s victory -Atiku

Ezekiel Johnson
Ezekiel Johnson
Atiku Abubakar

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has asserted that his decision to challenge the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the February 25 presidential election has nothing to do with his personal interest.

He said rather, it was in the interest of Nigeria and its people.

He added that it was with the aim of deepening democracy and ensuring that legitimacy was not conferred on “an outcome of illegitimacy.”

The former vice president made the assertion in a statement he personally signed when reacting to a “fake press release attributed to me and purportedly giving legitimacy to the widely rigged presidential election of February 25.”

He said he did not issue the statement and should be disregarded.

Atiku’s reaction reads in full:

“I have been notified of a fake press release attributed to me and purportedly giving legitimacy to the widely rigged presidential election of February 25.

“The so-called press release did not emanate from me or my office, and it should be treated with repudiation, untrue, and deliberately contrived by those who illegally appropriated the mandate of the Nigerian people.

“For the avoidance of any doubt, I wish to state categorically that my lawyers still have my unflinching mandate to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

“I join other lovers of democracy in Nigeria and friends of our great country in the outright rejection of the predetermined outcome of the February 25 election.

“I shall continue to challenge the legality of that election, alongside my party, the Peoples Democratic Party.

“The decision to challenge the sham election of February 25, the worst election in our democratic history, is not predicated on my personal interest but for the interest of Nigeria and its people. It is aimed at deepening democracy and ensuring that we do not confer legitimacy to an outcome of illegitimacy.

“My commitment to the democratic struggle in Nigeria is beyond an election season.”

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