Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s purported attempt to blackmail the court would fail, according to President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu claimed that Atiku’s latest comment proved that he still hasn’t gotten over the shock of losing the 2023 presidential race.
He challenged Atiku to show proof that his administration was attempting to subvert the judicial system.

The president’s spokesman, Dele Alake, released a statement in which he called Atiku’s allegations “full of innuendo, insinuations, and outright lies.”
We have read the ridiculous and jejune statement by former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,” Alake said.
It’s clear that the former Vice President has not yet recovered from the shock of defeat at the hands of the All Progressives Congress and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as evidenced by his current attempt to mischievously rake up another round of inanities that offend basic logic and rational thinking.
“Without offering a shred of evidence, Alhaji Atiku accused the current administration of the ruling APC of attempting to weaken the judiciary in a poorly reasoned and irrational statement. Former Vice President Atiku’s claims that the President Tinubu-led administration and the APC sought to undercut, undermine, and compromise the judiciary were supported by nothing more than innuendoes, insinuations, and outright lies in a press statement.
If the former VP truly values democracy and the independence of the judiciary, as he claims, then he would not make baseless and unfounded accusations designed to discredit and undermine the institution that is supposed to protect our democracy.
Even though he is a party to a matter before the Presidential Election Petition Court, he nonetheless resorted to this low attempt to intimidate and blackmail the Judiciary.
You can put President Bola Tinubu’s support for democracy, democracy’s values, the rule of law, and judicial independence in Nigeria head and shoulders above that of Atiku Abubakar. Alhaji Atiku was conspicuously absent during the years 1999–2007, when President Tinubu served as Governor of Lagos State under a PDP central government and led the struggle against the emasculation of the judiciary and promoted the sanctity of rule of law as the building block for effective administration.
It is on record and to President Tinubu’s enduring credit that he successfully contested several of the harsh and odious judgements of the PDP-led Federal Government that trampled on the rights of the States as federating units through the instrumentality of the law and Judiciary. During Tinubu’s tenure as governor of Lagos State, the state’s legal victories against the federal PDP hydra were celebrated all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The statement argued that even if Tinubu lost the last election, he still had no reason to disrespect the judiciary.
There is no way that President Tinubu, who has an impeccable reputation for standing up for the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, would ever consider doing what Alhaji Atiku claims he plans to do and undermine the court system.
A transparent and legitimate election resulted in President Tinubu’s victory. The presidential election on February 25, 2023, which he won, was the cleanest in Nigeria since 1999.
“President Tinubu and the APC absolutely have no reason to undermine the judiciary in hope of any favourable judgement,” he continued.
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