APC legal team to Atiku: we’re ready for you

The legal team of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council yesterday told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that it is fully prepared to defend the President’s victory in court.

Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja, the legal team urged the former vice president and all those who are not at peace with the outcome of the presidential election to seek judicial redress as that was the only constitutional thing to do.

In a communiqué signed by the Council’s Deputy Legal Director, Prof Mamman Lawan Yusufari, the APC legal team condemned the acts of violence that occurred in some parts of the country during the elections.

Members of the team congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari for winning the 2019 presidential election and thanked Nigerians for their overwhelming support.

They also commended other presidential candidates, political parties and their support groups for their general respect for law during the campaigns.

They also commends the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for conducting the Presidential and National Assembly Election in substantial compliance with the law and condemned the few cases of violence in some parts of the country and calls on the appropriate authorities to deal with the perpetrators in accordance with the law.

“We calls on interested parties who are not satisfied with the results of the elections to challenge same by following due process of the law, and affirms its readiness to defend the resounding victory of President Muhammadu Buhari with all the legal expertise at its disposal.”