Former Vice Atiku Abubakar at a World Press Conference in Abuja on Monday, lamented that “if the Supreme Court [of Nigeria], the highest court in the land, implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded, then, Nigeria has lost and the country is doomed irrespective of who occupies the Presidential seat.”
Atiku, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, also emphasized that “if the Supreme Court decides that the Electoral umpire, INEC, can tell the public one thing and then do something else in order to reach a corruptly predetermined outcome, then, there is really no hope for the country’s democracy and electoral politics”.
Atiku, therefore, stated that obviously, the consequences of those decisions for the country will not end at the expiration of the current government.
According to him, “they will last for decades. “I am absolutely sure that history will vindicate me. We now know what the Supreme Court has decided.”