Bola Tinubu is “President-select,” not “President-elect,” according to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s camp.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), according to Daniel Bwala, spokesman for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, has “selected” a president as its preferred choice.
According to Newsmen, Bwala stated this while answering inquiries on Arise TV.
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After garnering the most votes in the election on February 25, Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential candidate, was proclaimed the “President-elect” by INEC.
Bwala advised the ruling APC not to frighten the judges of the presidential election petition tribunal by using blackmail as a tool.
The PDP leader asserted that the ruling party and the current administration will always try to use all means at their disposal to coerce or intimidate judges.
He said “Now we are in court to say that it was a rigged process. As long as there is no final determination of the matter, we have every right under law, equity and justice to hold the opinion that we express – that he is a President-select and not a President-elect.”
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The PDP presidential campaign spokesperson said, “Our concern about the adjudication is the known fact that in Africa, any time a case is taken to court, the governing party and the government in power will always want to do anything they can to either intimidate the judges, to induce the judges, to manipulate the process or to confuse the people.
“At that stage, what do you do? The options are two: one is to become problematic in the country like creating chaos everywhere, which to us, is not strengthening democracy.
“The other one is to gather a global consensus because that is the whole idea of the United Nations, that nations of the world subscribe to agreements codified in charter, in conventions, in treaties, in agreements, that the common thing that binds us together is the rule of law, adherence to due process of law, non-interference in the institutions of the state.
“To be able to do that, you will need the world to look at Nigeria and see whether we are obeying the rules.”
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Bwala revealed that the PDP’s camp is “Engaging international media because our problem is that we have seen over the last few months how the government of the day is using an institution of the state called Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to intimidate media houses.
“The international media are bound by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission that always bring draconian military rules in a democratic state to say that you cannot express yourself.
“We have the utmost confidence in the judicial system but what we are saying is that the government, the ruling party should not use what is commonly known as the instrument of blackmail, which is used to preserve the power to intimidate the judges.”
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