The All Progressives Congress, APC, reportedly dismissed as fake, speculations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu might have reached an agreement with the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, to influence the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the Kano state governor, Abba Yusuf, with a caveat that the governor would consequently defect to the APC.
Meanwhile, the state chairman of APC, Alhaji Abdullahi Abba revealed this yesterday in Abuja. According to him, desperate leaders of the NNPP have been spreading rumours that a deal has been struck in order to compromise the anticipated Supreme Court judgement.
“Since the NNPP started circulating the rumors, its gullible members are excited and continue to dish out all sorts of lies so as to make the party’s supporters continue to remain hopeful in the face of the prevailing defeat”, he said.
Abbas stated that the rumors had it that the NNPP had reached out to President Tinubu to intervene in the matter in favour of the NNPP candidate to remain as governor and subsequently decamp to the APC.
He said; “There is no where such meeting was held with either Mr President or any leader of the party.
President Bola Tinubu is a democrat and strongly believes in the rule of law and the right thing to be done and therefore will not be part of any arrangement or reconciliation to subvert justice and support people who have stolen votes or breach the electoral act to emerge as leaders.”
Abbas hinted that APC as a party is not aware of such an arrangement and would instead intensify all efforts to pursue its case at the Supreme Court to a logical conclusion.
The chairman noted that the party was more than confident that it would emerge victorious at the Apex Court especially from the concrete and convincing evidence presented at both the Tribunal and the Appeal Court which ultimately led to our party’s success.
