Nigeria’s former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday said he would end the legal battle challenging the process and election that brought President Bola Tinubu into office after the Supreme Court judgement.
Atiku, who contested against Tinubu on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated this while briefing journalists in Abuja on the issue of Tinubu’s academic records released by the Chicago State University.
“The case is still in court. I’ll only drop this fight if the court rules. If the court rules that I’m right, fine, if the court rules that Tinubu is right, fine. There’s no other court higher than the Supreme Court. That is where it all ends,” Atiku said.
Atiku also said he never betrayed Tinubu during their political alignment in 2007.
He said rather than betray the President, he stood up to his then-principal, President Olusegun Obasanjo, and ensured that Lagos State did not fall to the political tsunami of 2003.
“Those of you who are old enough will also remember that in 2003, the PDP took over all the South-Western states, with the exception of Lagos.
“I stood between Obasanjo and himself (Tinubu) and I said no, you (Obasanjo) can’t take over Lagos. Leave it and he (Obasanjo) left it. So, who is indebted to whom? Is it me or Bola Ahmed Tinubu? I vehemently deny that I stabbed Tinubu in the back.
“There are other things which I will not want to go into,” the former Vice President said.
