Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president on February 25, 2023, says he will remain in politics despite the Supreme Court’s October 26, 2023 ruling upholding President Bola Tinubu’s election victory.
“As for me and my party, this phase of work is done. However, I am not going to go away, if you think I am going to go away, forget about it,” the former Vice President said at a press briefing on Monday in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
“For as long as I breathe, I will continue to struggle with other Nigerians to deepen our democracy. I will continue to work for the return of political and economical restructuring that the country needs,” he added.
For nearly thirty years, Atiku, a former vice president from 1999 to 2007, has attempted to become the president of Nigeria.
Despite his futile attempts, the PDP mainstay declared that he would not “go away.”
Atiku said that Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate at the time, lacked the necessary qualifications to run in the presidential election scheduled for February 2023.
He said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Supreme Court encouraged perjury, identity theft, impersonation, certificate fabrication, and illegality.
Atiku claimed that democracy is on life support when people stop believing in the democratic process.
Despite being definitive, he noted, the ruling of the supreme court left a lot to be desired.