The Supreme Court had
invited all the parties to the appeal to come for its detailed reasons for
summarily dismissing Atiku’s appeal on 30 October.
The Buhari Media
Organisation (BMO) has described the absence of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
its presidential candidate at the 2019 Presidential elections, Atiku Abubakar,
and their lawyers at the Supreme Court today as a grave insult to the Nigerian
nation and the Judiciary.
BMO said the snub of the
apex court by the PDP and Atiku’s lawyers was also an indication of what a sore
loser Atiku is and also his disdain for the Judiciary, especially when things
don’t go his way
In a statement signed by
its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said “there is no
sound reason nor excuse that would make this irresponsibility tenable. It was a
show of disrespect for the judiciary and for Nigeria. It bespeaks a man who has
no regard for the Nigerian people, Nigeria as a nation and the institutions he
pretended to revere.”
It further described Atiku
as “a sore loser, a weakling and a man who is incapable of accepting defeat and
facing the truth.
“Atiku is a man who sought
to lead this nation, yet he could not muster the courage to honour and stand
before its hallowed Judiciary. He has shown that he is neither fit not
competent, and that he does not have the needed character to lead himself, not
to talk of the Nigerian nation. His loss is well deserved indeed.
“If Atiku’s aim was to
embarrass the Supreme Court by this act, he should know by now that that
foolery he and his team displayed has only shown how far he is from the path of
rectitude.”
BMO stated that Atiku’s
case was from the onset unserious, filled with illogicalities and outright
jokes, because even he knew that he had no case.
“When Atiku and his team
came up with the childish fiction of a non-existent server, and attempts to
sneer at the President’s qualifications and certifications, it was clear that
they were in court to play games.
“They were an unserious
bunch of losers who were out only to malign President Buhari’s character and
indict the legitimacy of his victory. All of that today have fallen flat like a
pack of cards.”
The group further called on
the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to take a decisive action on Atiku’s lawyers
for being absent at the Supreme Court and thus dishonouring the highest court
of the land, noting that “though the current leadership of the NBA has a
tainted character, it could attempt a redemption of its present inglorious
status by doing the right thing for once, and dishing out serious chastisement
to the erring lawyers.
“Those lawyers who
conspired with Atiku to ridicule the Supreme Court of Nigeria are a disgrace to
the legal profession. They are not fit and proper. They have put a stain to the
dignity of the legal profession and they should be dealt with”, the statement
added
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