A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has told former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi of Labour Party that they were wasting time challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu.
Recall that Obi and Atiku are in court to seek an upturning of Tinubu’s victory.
But Galadima, who claimed that the elections were marred with
irregularities added that the courts have never overturned the outcome of any presidential election since 1979.
He said:
“Which politician has succeeded in court since 1979 in Nigeria in a presidential petition case?
“Why waste our N10bn or 15bn because we heard some people are spending such billions now on social media at the tribunal; if we have such money, we would use it to prepare for the 2027 general election”.
Meanwhile, Galadima also accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) boss, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, of subverting the will of Nigerians during the last presidential election.
He said what Yakubu did was worse than the “sins” of Godwin Emefiele, the embattled Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“The INEC chairman must go; what he did is not up to what Godwin Emefiele did. He colluded with some people to subvert the will of Nigerians. He committed the greatest crime anybody will commit,” he said.
