OBI ATTACKS INEC FOR DEFENDING TINUBU, ATIKU CLAIMS VICTORY

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, says since 1993 when he began gunning for the President seat, he has done so without any controversy unlike the All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu, who is contending with alleged drugs and identity scandals.

Atiku said this in his response to the preliminary objection filed by Tinubu and APC in reaction to Atiku’s petition, challenging Tinubu’s emergence as the February 25 presidential election winner.

Defending the President-elect, however, the APC Director of Publicity, Bala Ibrahim, berated Atiku for raising the drugs allegation, adding, “I am happy that he admitted that he is a perpetual loser. If you know you are a proud loser, why stand for an election that you know the outcome even from where you stand? What’s the point?”

Meanwhile, the candidate of the Labour Party, Obi, in his own response, accused INEC of bias, describing as embarrassing the insistence of the electoral umpire that Tinubu won the election and that the petitions challenging the declaration should be dismissed.