JUST IN: Tinubu Sent Governors to Appeal to Me to Drop the Case – Atiku Abubakar

At the world press conference on October 5, 2023, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 Nigerian general election, confirmed that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had sent a delegation of governors to his Abuja residence to plead with him to drop the case he had filed against Tinubu at the Supreme Court.

Abubakar said that he refused to allow the governors into his house, stating that he could not drop the case because it was a matter of national interest. He said that he was determined to pursue the case to the end in order to ensure that justice was served and that Tinubu was held accountable for his actions.

Meanwhile the school CSU had released the certificate to Atiku’s team, the former vice president who is challenging Tinubu’s election, called on Obi, Kwankwaso, and other Nigerians to join his quest for “justice” over the matter.

Atiku Abubakar call on all well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of thoughts, our religious, traditional, community and 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 this 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,” he said during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. “This is a task for every one of us.”

While Tinubu and his supporters have repeatedly denied the accusations, Atiku says he would continue to seek justice over the matter.

“Immediately after the elections, I was told there was a delegation of governors who claimed they were sent by the president, and I did not even allow them to get into my house – I didn’t,” Atiku added.

“I will only drop the fight when the court rules. If the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he is right, fine. So that’s the end of the fight, because, at the moment, we are the Supreme Court, and there is no other higher court than the Supreme Court.”