APC’s ‘snatch, grab and run’ agenda of opposition parties’ mandates is inimical to democracy – Atiku

NAIJA NEWS

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the recent rulings of the Appeal Court.

Naija News recalls that the Appeal Court, in recent judgments, has sacked three opposition Governors across the country.

Those sacked by the Appeal Court include Governors Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State, Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State, and Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State.

Reacting in a statement on Monday through his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku accused the judiciary of doing the bidding of the ruling APC.

According to the former Vice President, it has become increasingly apparent that the democracy in Nigeria is in a state of ill-health.

The complete statement reads:

The ideal notion of democracy does not just reside in a representative government but essentially rooted in the plurality of ideas. Thus, for a system to be seen as truly democratic, it must necessarily accommodate opposition and opposing views.

Sadly and suddenly, we have seen a trend whereby the range of opposition engagement continues to be narrowed by the ruling party in Nigeria. Either through the electoral process where opposition parties are rigged out with brazen impunity, or during the post election court processes where the judiciary is conspicuously doing the biddings of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), it has become increasingly apparent that the democracy in Nigeria is in a state of ill-health.

It gets more curious that all the states where the courts have made controversial declarations are states being controlled by the opposition political parties. From Nassarawa, Kano, Zamfara and now to Plateau State, where we are witnessing a situation in which what the ruling party missed out on Election Day are being delivered to them through the courts.

These are clearly ominous signs that threaten not just our faith in the electoral and judicial system but evincing that our democracy is compromised. It is also crystal clear that the ruling party will not desist from this inglorious ideology of ‘snatch, grab and run away with power.’