Judiciary Sabotaged By Cabal – Atiku – TheNigerialawyer

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 presidential election
has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling affirming President
Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC as the
winner of the election.

The Supreme Court made the declaration while giving its ruling
in a petition filed by Atiku to challenge the declaration of Buhari
as the winner of the election on Wednesday.

The 7 -ma panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Tanko
Mohammed said it will give reasons for the unanimous decision at a
later date.

But reacting to the judgment in a statement titled: “Supreme
Court Judgement, Part of our Democratic Challenges,” Abubakar said:
“It is said that the Supreme Court is not final because it is
infallible, but that it is infallible because it is final. While I
believe that only God is infallible everywhere, and only Nigerians
are infallible in our democracy, I must accept that the judicial
route I chose to take, as a democrat, has come to a conclusion.

“Whether justice was done, is left to the Nigerian people to
decide. As a democrat, I fought a good fight for the Nigerian
people. I will keep on fighting for Nigeria and for democracy, and
also for justice.

“I thank all Nigerians who have stayed the course since the
commencement of trial in the petition on the February 23
presidential election.

“The judgement is part of democratic challenges we must face as
a nation.

“The Nigerian judiciary, just like every estate of our realm,
has been sabotaged and undermined by an overreaching and
dictatorial cabal, who have undone almost all the democratic
progress the Peoples Democratic Party and its administrations
nurtured for sixteen years, up until 2015.

“Can Nigeria continue like this? Recently, former United States
Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Linda Thomas-Greenfield,
averred that Nigeria had rolled back the democratic gains she made
in 2015. When democracy is rolled back, the economy, the society
and the judiciary will not be far behind. Today, the nail has been
put on the coffin and the gains we collectively made since 1999 are
evaporating, and a requiem is at hand.

“In a democracy, you need a strong judiciary, a free press and
an impartial electoral umpire. Nigeria has none of those three
elements as at today.

“One man, one woman, one youth, one vote, should be the only way
to make gains in a democracy. And when that is thwarted, the clock
starts to tick.

“Two and a half millennia ago, Sophocles said ‘If we are to keep
our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration
justice.’ Nigeria will do well to observe this warning.

“To those who think they have broken my spirit, I am sorry to
disappoint you. I am too focused on Nigeria to think about myself.
I gave up that luxury twenty years ago. The question is not if I am
broken. The question is if Nigeria is whole?

“This is not a time for too many words. It will suffice for me
to remind Nigeria of this – we are an independent nation and we are
the architects of our fate. If we do not build a free Nigeria, we
may end up destroying her, and God forbid that that should be the
case.

“I was a democrat, I am a democrat, and I will always continue
to be a democrat. May God bless Nigeria.”

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