Popular Nigerian social justice crusader, Aisha Yesufu, says the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 Presidential election was a civilian coup against the wishes of the people.
Yesufu, a supporter of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said this while speaking in a ‘Mic On’ podcast titled, ‘The PEPC Judgment: Hopes met or dashed’ hosted by Channels TV presenter, Seun Okinbaloye, on Saturday night.
Yesufu was quoted as saying that Tinubu allegedly rigged his way into the presidency and therefore will never be seen as her president. .
She said, “Tinubu did not win the 2023 presidential election and will never be my president because he rigged his way to be declared the one with the majority votes. And as for me, that is a political coup. That is a civilian coup and it is the mandate of the people that was stolen.
“My focus and other Nigerians now is to ensure getting the mandate back.”
She added that the Presidential Election Petition Court which ruled that President Tinubu lawfully won the election was wrong.
“The joy in the faces of the judges showed that they were biased. They acted more like counsels to the respondents (President Tinubu, All Progressives Congress and VP Kashim Shettima),” Yesufu alleged.
“I stayed for over 13 hours in the court and I heard all the judgement read by the Court justices. It was all a movie.”
“And there was a trailer before the movie, it began when the former Supreme Court justice, Mary Odili spoke. It already preempted what we expected.”
According to her, the whole thing got fishy when PEPC declined that the proceedings be aired live from the beginning until the judgment day and failed to show the faces of the justices.
“There was a need for people to see how it has been going rather than just hearing the judgment only.
Yesufu said she believed that the judiciary is compromised while making reference to the issues of card readers not being admissible in the court while espousing Nyesom Wike and Peter Dakuku’s case in Rivers State.
“The politicians always believe that they control the court that is why they are quick to tell people to go to court if they are satisfied with the results of elections.”
On the ‘Eyes on the Judiciary’ being productive on the judgment, she said it was, explaining that Nigerians have taken it upon themselves to tell the court that they would not allow nefarious acts in the court.
A five-member panel of the Tribunal had on Wednesday dismissed the petitions of the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Obi of the Labour Party against the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election.
The decision had sparked outrage on Social Media.
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