The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has threatened to file contempt charges against the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, for intimidating and making contemptuous comments against the judiciary over the certificate of President Bola Tinubu.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that Mr Obi, during a press conference on Wednesday, asked Mr Tinubu to reintroduce himself to Nigerians and clarify the alleged controversies around his education records and family history.
But in a statement on Thursday, the national publicity secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, accused Mr Obi of echoing a script allegedly authored in part by Mr Abubakar.
While likening Mr Obi’s claim to a, “broken voice note of Atiku Abubakar, long after his party had dissociated itself from a bogus call to action by the former Vice President”, the ruling party stressed that Nigerians are aware of Mr Tinubu’s records.
The statement read: “Like a befuddled mind jolted out of deep slumber, Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, hugged a podium to echo a script authored by Atiku Abubakar, his senior partner and co-traveller, on a dark, ignominious alley to nowhere.
“Mr Obi must know that President Tinubu does not need a re-introduction. He does not have any identity problem, except the one contrived by the Atikus and Peters of our political firmament.
“As for President Tinubu’s academic record at the Chicago State University, the facts are clear and settled except for those political jaundiced by the trauma of electoral defeat.
“It is disturbing and utterly contemptuous of the courts of our land for the duo of Atiku and Obi to rail and pollute the public space with the very same issues that they have submitted to the court for adjudication. They have continued to perpetrate public deception, operating, simultaneously, as accusers and judges in their own base cause.
“We condemn the sordid and disgraceful attempt by Obi, Atiku and their cheerleaders to use the mainstream and social media to intimidate the judiciary, incite the public to violence, disparage Justices of the Appeal and Supreme Court, and we urge all well-meaning Nigerians to condemn this anti-democratic and irresponsible conduct of both political naggers.
“For the records, our team of lawyers stand advised to explore all available judicial mechanisms towards bringing Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar to justice for their ceaseless contemptuous conduct.”
