A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mustapha Salihu disclosed on Friday that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was circumvented by swindlers so that he would believe that there was an INEC server used to transmit the results of the election.
According to the APC chieftain, Salihu said that it is obvious that there was no such server recognised by law anywhere and so could not have been used for the election.
While addressing reporters in Abuja after the end of the party’s stskeholders meeting in Anambra state, Salihu argued that people who told the former Vice President of the existence of a server succeeded in scamming him. Eventhough Atiku lawyers did a good job but they failed to establish a prima facie case.
“Some people robbed them (PDP), took their money, telling them there was INEC server somewhere when that was not true,” he said.
“Even though their lawyers did a good job trying to present their case, it was dismissed because there was no substance.”
Salihu described the Presidential Election Petition tribunal’s verdict on Atiku’s suit as a victory for Nigeria and the Nigerian people and not for APC alone.
He added: “We have now done away with the distractions and this government is going to deliver the dividends of democracy and the next level is assured.
The outcome of the tribunal is something that was expected.
“All the grounds canvassed by the opposition are frivolous because you cannot say that an army general who served as a commanding officer, Head of State, Minister and President of Federal Republic of Nigeria for four years does not have credentials.”