President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday opened up on how he overcame the traumatic attack that could have possibly occurred to him while the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal was delivering its judgment on Wednesday.
Recall that on Wednesday, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja delivered its judgement in the suit filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, challenging Mr Buhari’s victory at the February 23, 2019 election.
However, the judgement went in the President’s favour as the tribunal had to dismiss the petition on the grounds that it lacked substantial evidence.
Speaking while receiving governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Aso Rock, the President said presiding over the Federal Executive Council meeting throughout the duration of the judgement did that magic as he busied himself with the meeting while the judgement went off.
He said: “On this judgement, again it was a fabulous coincidence that it came almost the same time the first Federal Executive Council meeting of this government was taking place. It lasted about the same time with the judgement.
“I thank God for that because I think would have gone into trauma or something. So, I was busy trying to concentrate on the memo.
“The first memo was on the budget and it took more than five hours. So, while you were doing your thing for nine hours, we were doing our for about seven hours here.
“It is a very interesting coincidence and I thank God for it because I would have been in trauma or something of that sort.
“So thank very much for sharing the glory with us. What I will say to you congratulations the chairman of the party and the governors is that we make sure that we really institutionalized the party, so that when we leave the stage the party will continue to lead.”
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that governors at the meeting included those of Osun, Plateau, Kano, Kebbi, Niger, Kogi, Yobe, Ogun, Jigawa, Borno, Lagos States.
Also at the meeting were the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
