By Abdulfatah Babatunde
Abuja, Feb. 1, ’25 (TNZ) The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has described as utterly befuddling and baffling former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s recent attempt to denigrate the judiciary.
TheNewsZenith reports that the group’s chairman and secretary, Emeka Nwankpa and Dapo Okubanjo respectively cautioned Atiku in a statement at the weekend.
“It is also reckless and unstatesmanly of him to make sweeping allegations against the judiciary on election matters.
“Has he forgotten that it is the same judiciary, an arm of government that saved him from the hands of his then-former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo?
“We are baffled that the former Vice President has again resumed his penchant for throwing tantrums.
“He has started making uncomplimentary remarks about the nation’s judiciary in the public space when things do not go his way,” TheNewsZenith quotes the statement as reading in part.
TMSG stated it was a worrisome trend that a supposed statesman, could spare no effort in making wild allegations against the courts.
“This is one man who, as a sitting Vice President, his principal, Olusegun Obasanjo, literally stripped and publicly disrobed him of his constitutional rights.
“It took the courage of judges at different levels of the strata, to save him from the hangman.
“We are aware that Atiku Abubakar waged a series of successive court battles which ended in his favour.
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“It also drew huge satisfaction from the then Vice President, who described the judiciary as truly independent,”
TMSG recalled that Atiku often said nice things about the judiciary, whenever his party won at election tribunals.
“And, we cannot recall at any time that he called to question the intervention of the judiciary in electoral matters that went against his direction.
“We, therefore, find it strange that the judiciary is considered perfect whenever he or his party members secure positive verdicts.
“But when things fail to go his way, the former Vice President riles against the judiciary in the most scathing of words as if it was placed there to satisfy his ego.”
The group cited an instance in 2019 when the former Vice President subtly called to question the credibility of a one-time President of the Appeal Court Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa.
He demanded that she recuse herself from a five-man tribunal to hear his legal challenge of President Muhammadu Buhari’s election.
That was on the ground that her husband was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress. (TNZ)
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