*Warns PDP’s candidate not bigger than law
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to be warned as he says he cannot win by subterfuge what he lost at the polls.
He said therefore that the PDP’s failed candidate cannot become president through the backdoor and so that he should be careful not to heat up the polity.
According to the Minister, the Federal Government was warning Atiku Abubakar not to do anything that could land him in avoidable trouble by desperately trying to become president through the backdoor after being rejected by Nigerians at the polls.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed handed down the subtle warning at a media briefing in Abuja in company with the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
The minister said it was wrong for Atiku to resort to tactics that were unknown to law in a bid to become the president of Nigeria after filing a petition at the Election Petition Tribunal, which is currently hearing the case.
He said Nigeria is a country bound by laws and that any resort to other illegal measures could be tantamount to embarking on illegality punishable by laws.
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