There are indications that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will not concede the presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari.
While the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) clearly pointed victory in the direction of President Buhari, who is the All Progressives Congress candidate, the PDP is making frantic efforts to challenge the results in court.
According to a source within the opposition party, former attorney-general of the federation, Kanu Agabi, is leading the team of lawyers that will challenge the result at the presidential election petitions tribunal of the federal court of appeal, Abuja.
The legal team also includes Joe Gadzama, and Chris Uche, among other senior advocates of Nigeria.
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“We are currently collating evidence to challenge the results being announced by INEC. We have been asking them to give us the data of the card readers used in Borno, Yobe and Nasarawa states but they have so far refused. This is daylight robbery,” a PDP executive told TheCable.
“I can also tell you that Atiku will not make any call to Buhari to concede the election.”
It was gathered that the Bukola Saraki, the director-general of the PDP presidential campaign, inaugurated the legal team on Tuesday evening at the Legacy House, Abuja.
Another source also revealed that Atiku could not attend the meeting as he was observing “bed rest.”