The All Progressive Congress (APC) and the winner of the February 23, 2019 Presidential Election, has filed a motion at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the poll, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a Nigerian and therefore not qualified to have stood for the election.
The
Party claimed that the former Vice President is a Cameroonian and not a
Nigerian citizen and his petition against President Muhammadu Buhari,
its own candidate, should be dismissed for lacking in merit.
In a
reply to the petition of Atiku and the PDP praying for their
declaration as the lawful winner of the presidential poll, the APC said
that the 11.1 million votes recorded in favor of the two petitioners
should be voided and considered a waste by the Presidential Election
Petition Tribunal.
The APC’s reply to the petition, filed by its
lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi faulted the candidacy of Atiku in the
election insisting that as a Cameroonian, he ought not to have taken
part in the presidential poll of Nigeria in the first instance.
The
Party averred that Atiku was born on November 25, 1946, in Jada,
Adamawa, in Northern Cameroon and is, therefore, a citizen of Cameroon
and not a Nigerian by birth.
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