Former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was the bigger loser in last week’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That was a convenient exaggeration to hide his misery. But it was unnecessary. After unsuccessfully contesting to be president six times, …

Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar unraveled on Monday at a press conference in Abuja where he finally found his voice after more than 96 hours to respond to his trouncing at the Supreme Court in a landmark judgement on his grossly incompetent election petition appeal. We were wrong to …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last February’s election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that the position of the Supreme Court, affirming President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the poll, leaves many questions unanswered. At a press conference on national issues in Abuja on Monday, Atiku said: “We showed irrefutable evidence of gross irregularities, violence, and …

The Supreme Court, sitting in Abuja as presidential election petition panel on Thursday, ruled that it lacked the jurisdiction to hear the appeal of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the 25th February election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on the academic records of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The seven-member panel, led by Justice …

President Bola Tinubu on Monday said the Chicago State University (CSU) evidence presented by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is inadmissible. President Tinubu made the submission at the Supreme Court proceedings on the appeal filed by Atiku to nullify his (Tinubu) victory at the 2023 presidential poll. This is the Supreme Court scolded …

The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in the appeal by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the 6th September ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) which affirmed the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the last presidential election. A seven-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice John Okoro, made the announcement after …

The appeal challenging the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which affirmed the 25th February election of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, begin this morning at the Supreme Court. Several appeals were filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; his counterpart of the Labour …

The Supreme Court has fixed Monday, 23rd October for hearing in the appeal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, seeking the nullification of President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the 25th February election. On the same day, the apex court will hear the motion by Atiku seeking to bring fresh evidence to prove that Tinubu, …

As the controversy over the academic certificates of President Bola Tinubu and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last February’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, rages, the latter has restated the allegation of certificate forgery against the President. In a statement on Sunday, Atiku’s Media Adviser, Mr. Paul Ibe said that the world now knows President Tinubu …

I tried in vain to allot a fair conscience to Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of the republic. This is because of several weeks, if not months of his brazen self-inflicted project of trying to expose a smoking gun off President Bola Tinubu’s academic records especially in relation to the former senator’s educational sojourn at the most popular American …