Following the Supreme Court judgement, which affirmed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sam Nkire has called on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) to obey the final whistle of the court and prepare for the next presidential election in 2027.
Nkire, who is also the pioneer leader of the APC caucus in Abia state, also advised the candidates of both the PDP and LP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi respectively, to imbibe the spirit of good sportsmanship and statesmanship by congratulating the winner of the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The APC stalwart, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, reminded the two opponents of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the Supreme Court was not only supreme but the ‘be all and end all’ in matters of litigation, as well as the court of final adjudication which judgement is final.
Nkire said all that Nigerians expected from Atiku and Obi were the demonstration of dignity and respect for the rule of law, especially as it is in public knowledge that both leaders had in the recent past had their political careers saved by the muscle of the rule of law.
He added that the two major odds that played against the former vice president and the former governor during the election were the seeming intractable crisis which still persists in the PDP and the lack of spread which plagued the newly formed LP.
Nkire said he was however hoping that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi would change their minds and heed President Bola Tinubu’s clarion but brotherly call to join him in the arduous task of getting Nigeria out of its present economic woods.
According to the elder statesman, “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi, very well know that Nigeria is still work in progress and a delicate contraption which should not be disrupted by anyone’s personal ambition.”