The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has declared that he will only cease his legal dispute with President Bola Tinubu if the Supreme Court issues a ruling in favor of the President.<\/p>\n
Atiku made this statement during a press conference held in Abuja on Thursday, where he addressed the matter of President Bola Tinubu’s academic records recently released by the Chicago State University (CSU).<\/p>\n
When asked if he would ever step down the legal battle against President Tinubu, Atiku replied, \u201cThe case is still in court. I\u2019ll only drop this fight if the court rules. If the court rules that I\u2019m right, fine, if the court rules that Tinubu is right, fine. There\u2019s no other court higher than the Supreme Court. That is where it all ends.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Atiku also disproved allegations that he betrayed Tinubu, who many see as his former political ally.<\/p>\n
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His words, \u201cI disagree with Tinubu, yes it\u2019s true that we came together in 2007. In Lagos, at the convention, I emerged winner and got the party\u2019s ticket. After I got the ticket, he sent me about five or six senior party men, and they met me and said Bola (Tinubu) wanted to be my running mate.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI said, gentlemen, you are all old enough, and asked, What would be your reaction to having a Muslim-Muslim ticket?<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey all answered that they objected to it, I then told them they should have told him and that was the end of the political relationship; he (Tinubu) broke away, and supported Umaru Yar\u2019Adua. So what is the ground for him to say I betrayed him?<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn 2003, the PDP took over all the southwestern states with the exception of Lagos. I stood between Obasanjo and Tinubu and told Obasanjo to leave Lagos, and he left it. I vehemently deny that I stabbed Tinubu in the back.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTill today, I won\u2019t do a Muslim-Muslim ticket; I don\u2019t have to be president; we are a multi-ethnic and multi-religious people, and our government must reflect our diversity, and our composition must reflect the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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