APC, Presidency in fresh plot to set up Atiku —PDP
insists party needs no lobby group to reclaim presidential mandate
By Dirisu Yakubu & Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA—National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said no amount of fabrications, attempt at set-up, veiled and open threats by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government would stop its Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar from reclaiming his mandate at the tribunal.
The party rejected in its entirety, “the declaration by the Presidency that Atiku Abubakar is “lucky to be walking free,” adding that such a statement was inciting and “brings to the fore the unwholesome intention of the APC-led administration against Atiku Abubakar for seeking to retrieve his stolen mandate at the court.”
This came as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it had filed its response to Atiku’s petition and others. Yesterday…
