The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is again under the delusion that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would prevail in his appeal at the Supreme Court.
The party was described as vain, the confidence of victory being expressed by the opposition from its appeal at the apex court, stating that Atiku and his party were heading for another round of “spectacular defeat.”
Supreme Court on Monday, October 23, reserved judgment in the appeal by Abubakar and his party against the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) which affirmed the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the last presidential election.
A seven-member panel of the court, led by Justice John Okoro made the announcement after lawyers to parties adopted their briefs of argument and made final submissions.
Dismissing PDP’s optimism of victory at the apex court, APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement in Abuja on Monday trashed an earlier statement by the PDP, insisting that the opposition party is “deep in hallucination.”
Morka, a lawyer argued that “Court cases are won on the strength of cogent, credible, compelling or substantial evidence, not on hollow, implausible, capricious tales and fabrications of the kind that Atiku Abubakar dumped on the court in the guise of a “body of evidence”, evidencing nothing.
The PDP must also be thoroughly deluded to imagine that it can get through the court what it deservedly failed to get through the polls.
The governing party noted that the claim by the PDP that the election was “manipulated” against its candidate was “both ridiculous and insulting to millions of Nigerians who voted massively for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Presidential Candidate, now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He said: “The PDP and its candidate’s desperate resort to blackmail, disinformation, misinformation, and malicious falsehoods against the President and our great Party is intended to prospectively downplay what promises to be a spectacular and ignominious defeat that awaits the PDP and its nemesis of a presidential candidate.”
