Our attention has been drawn to some news item and posts on
social media reporting that we wrote a letter to some international bodies to
prevail on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar not to proceed to court to challenge the
result of the 2019 Presidential Election.
Our investigation reveals that a letter to that effect was
purportedly written by a certain ‘Buhari Campaign Organisation’. This is
the second time we will be informing the public that the said ‘Buhari Campaign
Organisation’ does not act at the behest of the APC Presidential Campaign
Council nor does it represent the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign
Organisation in any way. As a result, whatever it has released DOES
NOT REPRESENT THE POSITION OF THE APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL OR
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
Our official position is that we believe that Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar has a constitutional right to seek redress in court and we do not seek
in any way to curtail that right. In fact, it is the resort to court that is
the only democratic way to ventilate his perceived grievance and any attempt to
restrict or discourage the exercise of such right would be an invitation to
anarchy.
In addition, we are very anxious to meet Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar in court in order to show the world in a conclusive manner the free
and fair nature of the comprehensive defeat of Atiku at the polls. An election
is not termed ‘rigged’ only by the mere claim of it by the loser. That is what
Atiku and the PDP want to ram down our throats. Unfortunately for them,
international, continental and sub-regional observers (who can be seen as
neutral by all standards) ALLdeclared the election to be free, fair and
credible. No ego-massaging narrative can change that.
We therefore totally disassociate ourselves from the letter
purportedly written by one of, perhaps, many support groups of President
Muhammadu Buhari. They may have a right to their opinion, but it does not
represent our official position.
Thank you.
FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN, FCIArb (UK),
Director of Strategic Communications,
APC Presidential Campaign Council
(Official Spokesperson)