1.6m Votes: Atiku Has Slipped Into Severe Post-Election Depression And Hallucination With His Claims – APC

1.6m Votes: Atiku Has Slipped Into Severe Post-Election Depression And Hallucination With His Claims – APC

The All Progressives Congress has said the Peoples Democratic Party
and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have slipped into a state of
depression and hallucination with their recent utterances. 

The ruling party said that was evident in their relentless efforts to
discredit the “credible” February 23 presidential elections as
acknowledged by local and international observers.

The former Vice President had claimed figures on Independent National
Electoral Commission’s server showed he won the election with over 1.6
million votes margin. But the APC in a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said it sympathised with
Atiku for the crushing defeat handed him by President Buhari through the
votes of Nigerians.  

“Judging by Atiku and PDP’s recent utterances and actions, it is now
clear that they have slipped into severe depression and post-defeat
hallucination that have left many Nigerians questioning their current
state of mind.  

“After weeks of dilly-dallying, the PDP has woken up to the stark
reality of its electoral defeat and decided to follow the constitutional
path of filing a petition at the Election Tribunal. However, of all the
prayers of Atiku before the Election Tribunal, which are at best
hollow, the most ridiculous is his claim that the server of the
Independent National Electoral Commission indicated he ‘won’ the
Presidential Election by 1.6million votes.  

“A few questions would suffice: Is this phantom figure of 1.6million
votes Dubai-invented? Was the result sold to Atiku by his numerous
marabouts, who we understand, had assured him that the last election was
a done deal for him?”  

The APC said it had noted Atiku’s consistent reference to the “INEC
server” as if he was the custodian of that platform.  Indeed, Atiku’s
constant reference to the INEC server should raise concerns as it is
becoming apparent that he and the PDP are up for some dastard activities
that are targeted at jeopardising the INEC database and internal
storage system.  

“We recall the widespread reported cases of several programmed card
readers that were retrieved from some PDP agents and their failed
attempt to hack the INEC database in the leadup to the then postponed
presidential election.  

“We remind the Atiku and PDP that Nigerians saw through the devious
schemes aimed at thwarting their will. Consequently, the majority of the
voters handed them a harsh verdict — that verdict remains sacrosanct.”  

The party called on the INEC and the security agencies to be on red
alert to ensure that Atiku and the other desperate characters in the PDP
were not able to execute their “evil plans.”