Presidential election: Uzoukwu heads Atiku’s legal team

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has inaugurated his legal team to challenge the result of the 23 February presidential election.

A statement issued by his media adviser. Paul Ibe Media, in Abuja on Saturday, said the team is headed by Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN.

Recall that Independent National Electoral Commission had on Wednesday, 27 February declared Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the election.

However, Atiku Abubakar on Thursday, 28 rejected the result citing several malpractices including the use of the military to perfect voters’ intimidation and suppression in PDP strongholds, connivance of INEC officials, security agents and the ruling party to manufacture bogus figures and outright falsification of the returns from the polling units.

Consequently, he had given notice that he will use all available legitimate means to challenge the result of the election.

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The statement said that on Thursday night the PDP presidential candidate met with members of the National Peace Committee prompting concerns in some quarters that he may have been prevailed upon not to proceed with the challenge

It quoted Atiku as saying: “I have just inaugurated my legal team and charged them with the responsibility of ensuring that our stolen mandate is retrieved.

“I am encouraged by the presence of fearless men and women of the bench. The judiciary which had in the past discharged itself ably is once again being called upon to deliver judgement on this matter that will be untainted by lucre and uncowed by the threat of immoral power,” he added

Atiku assured Nigerians that “sooner than later these noble dispensers of justice will give a judgement that will represent a historic denunciation of electoral fraud and mandate bandit.”