Atiku Abubakar will not concede the presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assembled a team of lawyers to challenge the result in court, TheCable understands.
Buhari,
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is projected to win
the election with the results declared by the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
PDP sources told TheCable that Kanu
Agabi, former attorney-general of the federation, is leading the team of
lawyers that will challenge the result at presidential election
petitions tribunal of the federal court of appeal, Abuja.
Other
members of the legal team, TheCable can report, are Joe Gadzama, who has
always served as a lawyer to the party, and Chris Uche, among other
senior advocates of Nigeria.
“We are currently collating evidence
to challenge the results being announced by INEC. We have been asking
them to give us the date of of the card readers used in Borno, Yobe and
Nasarawa states but they have so far refused. This is daylight robbery,”
a PDP executive told TheCable.
“I can also tell you that Atiku will not make any call to Buhari to concede the election.”
The
legal team was inaugurated by Bukola Saraki, the director-general of
the PDP presidential campaign, on Tuesday evening at the Legacy House,
Abuja.
TheCable had reported on Monday that the legal team had
summoned an emergency meeting to review complaints about the
presidential election and decide on the way forward.
Atiku could not attend meeting as he was observing “bed rest”, according to source in the know.
Source:- Thecableng
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