The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has finally reacted to the tribunal judgement in his suit he jointly filed with his party, PDP.
He is challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congressn the February 2019 general election.
In a statement personally signed by him on Friday, Atiku, showed his gratitude to Nigerians for standing by him. He explained that his interest in ensuring that Nigerians votes count, is the reason he is appealing the tribunal judgement. And pursuing judicial route to ensure he gets justice.
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Atiku, thanking his supporters, admonished them not to underestimate the effect of their belief that justice will be done.
Atiku’s full statement read below:
A Message of Gratitude to Nigerians For Your Support on This Necessary Journey
Dearly beloved citizens of Nigerians,
I write to personally thank you for your support for our shared common goal and the solidarity I enjoyed from all walks of life and every strata of society, right from July 21, 2018, when I informed you, the good people of Nigeria, that I would contest the 2019 Presidential election, to Wednesday September 11, 2019, when the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal rendered its verdict.
Nothing good comes easy, and hard as the task to rid Nigeria from the forces of fascism, and be an instrument for the full restoration of the rule of law and democracy in Nigeria is, your support makes the struggle worthwhile.
I owe so much to this great land of Nigeria that took me from the streets of Jada, where I sold firewood, to the heights I have attained, by God’s benevolence, in the civil service, in corporate Nigeria, and in public service.
If I do not play my part in making it possible for other orphaned children, indigent youths and the less privileged, to replicate and even surpass my path to significance, I would have failed my Maker. If I do not ensure that the ladder I climbed remains accessible to those at the bottom, middle and top tiers of society, I would not have fulfilled my purpose.
