President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called out the Peoples Democratic Party presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar for constituting nuisance on the streets of Abuja in the guise of protest at the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Atiku, had in a press conference, expressed dissatisfaction at the election results announced by INEC that led to the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president-elect after polling the highest number of votes.
The PDP flagbearer had said he was going to challenge the result in court.
Atiku, however, on Monday along with a motley of party supporters took to the streets of Abuja in protest that obstructed traffic in the Federal Capital Territory
In a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Director of the APC presidential campaign council, Tinubu faulted the action of Atiku, asking him to stop throwing tantrums like a kid whose candy was taken away.
“When the defeated Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar told the whole world last week that he would seek redress in court over the outcome of the 25 February Presidential election little did we know that he did not plan to be guided by his own promise.
Going by his political antecedents, it was rather not surprising that Atiku, days later, led a band of protesters, nay jesters in Abuja, to the Headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission.
“What was on display today by Alhaji Atiku and his motley crowd was a new low from the perennial election loser.
“With Atiku staging a theatre of the absurd, we fail to see how a march to INEC by a scanty crowd will provide any victory window for him and his fragmented PDP.
“The only recourse open to Atiku after the electoral umpire declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, is the Election Petition Tribunal.
“Instead of Atiku and his party to wisely spend their time to gather the so-called evidence they hope to present before the courts, they are busy dancing ‘skelewu’ on the streets and causing traffic nuisance to residents of the Federal Capital Territory who were going to work on a Monday morning.
We don’t expect a former Vice President of Nigeria, a statesman and a Presidential candidate to be so jobless as to have time to disturb public peace over an electoral outcome he had already said he would challenge in court.
“We want to admonish Alhaji Atiku to respect his age and the high office of the Vice Presidency of Nigeria he once occupied. He should stop being teleguided by Dino Melaye, who disclosed scandalously that N400 billion was wasted on the election which was clear at the outset that Atiku was bound to lose.
Atiku should avoid being misdirected by other court jesters in his party, who continued to campaign after the election, still spewing their inanities against the President-elect.
“They are mere comic characters in a travelling theatre group.
“INEC Headquarters is not a court where the prayers of Alhaji Atiku can be answered. No amount of theatrical display will give him succour.
“The honourable and lawful path to take is for Atiku to get his lawyers to plead his case in court. He should stop throwing tantrums like a baby whose candy was taken away over an election he clearly lost due to his own poor judgment; mismanagement of his own party and violation of power rotational arrangement between the North and the South. The PDP presidential candidate dug his own grave, in his last election and, absurdly, he is trying to rewrite the script of his own utter failure.”