Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the PDD, has been asked to give up his aspirations by Lere Olayinka, a PDP chieftain in Ekiti State.
The former vice president, according to him, ought to let younger Nigerians run the PDP.
In the just concluded National Assembly election, Olayinka was the primary House of Representatives opposition candidate for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 2.
He claimed that the opposition should take responsibility for the All Progressives Congress, APC, winning the presidential election.
On Friday, he made this statement while participating in many programs on TVC and Silverbird Television.
Olayinka’s remarks were in response to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal’s confirmation of Bola Tinubu’s victory in the last general elections.
He said,
“it is a waste of time going to court to challenge an election the PDP should have won so easily.
“How do you prove malpractices in an election held in over 176,000 polling units when it is mandatory that you must call witnesses in all polling units where you alleged irregularities?
“For instance, if you claimed irregularities in 10,000 polling units, how do you bring 10,000 party agents to the court to give evidence?
“Therefore, it is better to do all that you must do within the ambit of the law to win instead of waiting to lose and go to the Tribunal.
“When you choose to sacrifice five governors for a single National Chairman, you should know that the result will be a failure.
“And after planning to fail, you now want the court to help you remedy your own failure? Who does that?
“Therefore, rather than dissipate energies and resources, going from one court to the other in search of an electoral victory that the opposition threw away by itself, what should be happening is a rebuild towards 2027, with younger Nigerians taking the lead.”