By Dwelleth Ogbodo
The Spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign Organization (BCO), Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN, on Tuesday said the PDP presidential candidate in last Saturday’s election;
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has a constitutional right to seek redress in court.
Keyamo, said resort to court is the only democratic channels Atiku can ventilate his grievance and therefore any attempt to restrict or discourage the exercise of such right would be an invitation to anarchy.
In a statement, the Spokesman said its attention has been drawn to some news item and posts on social media reporting that the party wrote to some international bodies to prevail on Atiku not to proceed to court to challenge the result of the 2019 presidential election.
He said: “Our investigation reveals that a letter to that effect was purportedly written by a certain Buhari Campaign Organisation, This is the second time we will be informing the public that the said ‘BCO’ does not act at the behest of the APC Presidential Campaign Council nor does it represent the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation in any way.
As a result, whatever it has released does not represent the position of the campaign council or Buhari, he said.
In addition, he said APC is anxious to meet Atiku, in court in order to show the world in a conclusive manner the free and fair nature of the comprehensive defeat of Atiku at the polls. An election is not termed ‘rigged’ only by the mere claim of it by the loser. That is what Atiku and the PDP want to ram down our throats.
“Unfortunately for them, international, continental and sub-regional observers (who can be seen as neutral by all standards) all declared the election to be free, fair and credible. No ego-massaging narrative can change that.” He said.