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| Lai Mohammed says Atiku is lucky to have not been charged for producing fake evidence in court. |
Yesterday's PEPT Ruling is generating some interesting reactions from both side of the political devide. While the PDP in a press statement yesterday, outrightly rejected the Petition Tribunal's ruling in favor of Buhari, the Presidency in a counter reaction to claims raised by the PDP in its press statement, has said that the PDP and Atiku should have been grateful that they weren't prosecuted for producing fraudulently-obtained evidence to the Court.
The Presidency via the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the PDP should apologize to Nigerians for willfully distracting the Buhari Administration with a frivolous election petition.
The Minister who issued the statement while in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, on Thursday, said, ”Nigerians are tired of this orchestrated distraction, and will rather wish that the opposition, having lost at the polls and in court, will now join hands with the government to move Nigeria to the
next level.
”This is more so that the judgement validating the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari was unanimous that the petition lacked merit, that the petitioners failed to prove any of the grounds upon which their case was anchored and that President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest the poll,” he said.
”It is intriguing that a party that trumpets the rule of law at every turn will present, in open court, evidence it claimed to have obtained by hacking into a supposed INEC server. Don’t they realize this is a criminal act for which they are liable? Instead of threatening to head to the Supreme Court, driven more by ego than commonsense, they should be sorry for allowing desperation to overwhelm their sense of reasoning. Enough is enough,” he said.
The Minister commended the Tribunal for not only doing justice to the case but for explaining, in painstaking details that lasted hours, how it arrived at its judgement.
”We also thank Nigerians, who voted massively to re-elect President Buhari, for their continued support,” he said
