FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, says he is free from drugs and identity scandals, unlike Tinubu.
Atiku was responding to Tinubu’s comment, where he described the former Vice President as a serial election loser.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party – PDP, was responding to Tinubu and All Progressives Congress – APC, reply to his petition challenging the process and the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
He said that his identity, including age, State of Origin and educational qualifications have never been in dispute like those of Tinubu.
Atiku said that Tinubu is constitutionally disabled from contesting for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, adding that Tinubu is unfit to lead Nigeria having been indicted for drug related offences in the United States of America (USA) and made to forfeit a sum of $460,000 as a compromise agreement.
In the response filed by his lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), the PDP presidential candidate justified why the declaration of Tinubu as President-elect cannot stand, adding that against the law, Tinubu holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea, having voluntarily acquired the citizenship of the Republic of Guinea.
He also accused Tinubu of not disclosing facts of his constitutional qualifications in his Form EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), contrary to the provisions of the law.
Justifying his request for the annulment of the declaration of Tinubu as President-elect, Atiku said that Tinubu and APC never won majority of the lawful votes cast in the February 25 presidential election
Amongst others, the PDP presidential candidate maintained that Tinubu failed part of the constitutional requirements having failed to secure 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as constitutionally required.
He insisted that the return of Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election is undue, unlawful and invalid because Tinubu did not meet the constitutional requirements as to qualification.