Why Court is our Only Option – Atiku
As some eminent Nigerians, including royal fathers and a senior lawyer, continued to urge the PDP to accept the result of the elections by congratulating the President, Atiku says such a counsel is one he is not going to heed because going to court is the reasonable route to take.
Speaking exclusively on the issue, spokesman for the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said the refusal to permit a forensic audit of the ballot papers used for the elections would be appealed by the former Vice President at the appropriate time.
He said, “It is ridiculous to read very enlightened members of the bar advising Alhaji Atiku Abubakar not to seek legal redress. Why then do we have laws if they would not be subjected to test at the relevant courts of law? How do you advise a man not to take a civilized route to demand for justice where injustice has been seen to have been committed?
“The refusal to grant the order for forensic analysis will be appealed because, that is one scientific way to determine multiple voting and reckless thumb-printing that was perpetrated during the election. We will carry out the examination of other election materials to establish discrepancies which are so visible in the way that figures were concocted in certain areas.
“We will pursue this case to a logical conclusion to strengthen the processes of election and electoral conduct so that powers-that-be would not just wake up and conjure figures to represent voting outcome. There were issues with card readers which formed the basis for the voting and we do not expect INEC to violate her own rules and regulations.
“If the card readers did not work as directed by INEC, what was the substitute? Is that valid in law? Please tell those advising our candidate not to go to court to keep their advice. We will test the validity of our laws as contained in relevant documents to ensure that they are not run in the breach whimsically without consequences.”
Laudable as the option taken by Atiku is, pundits are worried that the slow pace of justice in the land may render the pursuit of the option not only difficult but also frustrating for the man seeking redress from the judiciary.
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