The ruling party said Atiku is suffering from post-election depression following his claim that he that he defeated Buhari with 1,615,302 votes.
The PDP presidential candidate, in a petition filed at
the election tribunal claims that data from the server of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shows that Atiku
polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari who scored
16,741,430 votes.
PDP Presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
APC’s response
In
its response, APC’s spokesman, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu said Nigerians
voted massively as a show of confidence for President Buhari.
Vanguard
also reports that Issa-Onilu issued a statement saying: “While the APC
is not oblivious of the PDP’s antics to discredit the credible
presidential electoral process, acknowledged by local and international
observers, we sympathise with Atiku for the crushing defeat handed him
by President Buhari through the votes of Nigerians.
“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 (INEC) 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?
“Most importantly, we note
Atiku’s consistent reference to the “INEC server” as if he is 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
jeopardizing 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 lead up to the then postponed presidential
election.
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