The presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has asked an FCT High Court for an order stopping President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies from alleged interferance with the general elections.
Atiku
sought the order in a statement of defence he filed against a
defamation suit instituted against him by the Buhari Campaign
Organization (BCO).
In his counter-claim against the suit, Atiku
sought an order of court ”mandating President Buhari and his agents
including security operatives and officers to abide by the rule of law
and the principle of separation of powers entrenched in the constitution
and should not intervene in the forthcoming elections.”
Atiku,
through his counsel, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN), challenged the
competence of the suit and urged the court to grant an order mandating
President Buhari to apologise to him for filing a frivolous suit against
him.
Atiku who asked for N2 billon as damages, said part of the
money should be given to IDP camps across the country and the rest be
used in equipping libraries and information technology centres for all
state Universities in Nigeria.
In a 56-paragraph witness
statement on oath deposed by one Abraham Udoh, the former vice president
told the court that Buhari had failed Nigerians by his inability as a
president to stop the ruthless and wanton killings that rendered
citizens, farmers, women and children homeless without food or basic
amenities.
The case will come up for hearing on March 7.
Source:- Dailytrustng
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