Atiku To PEPC: Explain Why CTC Of Judgment Is On Tinubu’s Counsel Letterhead

Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to explain to the world what he called “ambiguities around why copies of the judgment bears the header of the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team.”

In a statement signed and released on Saturday in Abuja by the Special Assistant (Communications) to Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu, he said there was no intention to stir up controversy on the matter, “but it is very important that the PEPC should tell Nigerians why they chose to affix the header of the Respondents on the CTC copy of their judgment, whereas the copies that went to the petitioners did not have the same.”

Shaibu said the court must explain why Tinubu Legal Team was deemed to be accorded special privileges.

The statement said: “It is very clear that there are many questions begging for answers, including why the PEPC came to the decision to avail the Respondents, especially the Tinubu Legal Team to have a first receipt of the CTC of the judgment before the Plaintiffs.

“The curiosity is more confounding based on the fact that the lead counsel to Atiku and the PDP had pleaded in the open court to have express receipt of the judgment, to which Justice Haruna Tsammani agreed to and promised to make the document available the following day, which was Thursday.

“Nigerians want to know why the PEPC confers special privileges to the Tinubu Legal Team by making them have a first custody of copies of the PEPC judgment, even though it was more urgent for the Petitioners who needed the document in order to cause an appeal to the Supreme Court within 14 days including weekends