The skies won't fall if you fire Tinubu as president, Atiku urges court
People's Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has pleaded with the Petitions Tribunal for the Presidential Elections to muster enough courage to do substantial justice to his petition calling for the annulment of Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 election.
Atiku said on Sunday that contrary to Tinubu's threat, the heavens would not fall when he (Tinubu) was sacked by the court as President of Nigeria due to massive electoral fraud that brought him to power.
In his final written speech, Atiku dismissed Tinubu's threat as an empty threat deployed to scare the court from upholding justice in the petition challenging Tinubu's election.
In the final written speech by his lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, the former vice president recalled the courageous stand taken by the Supreme Court in the Rotimi Amaechi case, where the Supreme Court ruled that the sky would not fall when justice is served in the manner prescribed by law.
Justice George Adesola Oguntade, who delivered the Supreme Court judgment in the cited authority, said, "I must do justice even though the sky is falling. The truth, of course, is that when justice has been done, the heavens remain in one place and at peace."
Atiku asked the court to invoke the courage shown in the Supreme Court's latest judgment to settle his case against Tinubu ignoring the threat of monumental chaos made by Tinubu to protect himself from justice.
The former Vice President argued that Tinubu had lost the moral and legal rights to hold office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after he admitted a punitive forfeiture of $406,000 in a narcotics and money laundering case.
Furthermore, Atiku accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of manipulating the presidential election results in the most corrupt manner in favor of Tinubu and subsequently illegally proclaimed him (Tinubu) the winner of the election.
Invoking INEC's alleged brazen subversion of the popular will of the voters in favor of Tinubu, the former vice president appealed for the electoral body's proclamation to be rescinded and reversed and in its place declare him the winner of the election after convincingly securing a majority of the legal votes.
People's Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has pleaded with the Petitions Tribunal for the Presidential Elections to muster enough courage to do substantial justice to his petition calling for the annulment of Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 election.
Atiku said on Sunday that contrary to Tinubu's threat, the heavens would not fall when he (Tinubu) was sacked by the court as President of Nigeria due to massive electoral fraud that brought him to power.
In his final written speech, Atiku dismissed Tinubu's threat as an empty threat deployed to scare the court from upholding justice in the petition challenging Tinubu's election.
In the final written speech by his lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, the former vice president recalled the courageous stand taken by the Supreme Court in the Rotimi Amaechi case, where the Supreme Court ruled that the sky would not fall when justice is served in the manner prescribed by law.
Justice George Adesola Oguntade, who delivered the Supreme Court judgment in the cited authority, said, "I must do justice even though the sky is falling. The truth, of course, is that when justice has been done, the heavens remain in one place and at peace."
Atiku asked the court to invoke the courage shown in the Supreme Court's latest judgment to settle his case against Tinubu ignoring the threat of monumental chaos made by Tinubu to protect himself from justice.
The former Vice President argued that Tinubu had lost the moral and legal rights to hold office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after he admitted a punitive forfeiture of $406,000 in a narcotics and money laundering case.
Furthermore, Atiku accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of manipulating the presidential election results in the most corrupt manner in favor of Tinubu and subsequently illegally proclaimed him (Tinubu) the winner of the election.
Invoking INEC's alleged brazen subversion of the popular will of the voters in favor of Tinubu, the former vice president appealed for the electoral body's proclamation to be rescinded and reversed and in its place declare him the winner of the election after convincingly securing a majority of the legal votes.
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