Atiku Speaks On Creation Of GoFundMe Account

Atiku Speaks On Creation Of GoFundMe Account
Atiku Abubakar

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has distanced himself from the GoFundMe account set up to support his case at the tribunal.

The Media adviser to the former vice-president, Phrank Shaibu, said this while reacting to the setting up of the account which stirred up a heated debate on social media.

“We do not know anything about it. We are not in any way connected to it but we consider it as a purely private initiative of the promoters,” he said.

It was learned that over $800 (N288,000) out of the target $100,000 (N36m) was donated within 24 hours before the account has been taken down.

Concise News reports that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday granted Atiku access to All Electoral Materials used in the February 23 polls.

A three-man panel, led by Justice Abdul Aboki, gave the order after hearing the ex-parte motion filed by the PDP and Atiku.

The former vice president is seeking an order granting him and his party access to inspect the electoral materials used for the elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Wednesday, February 27, declared President Muhammadu Buhari winner of the election.

INEC said Buhari, who vied for re-election on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat Atiku, who got 11,262,978 votes.

But the PDP candidate rejected the result of the election, claiming it was manipulated.

To this end, he filed an ex-parte motion at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, asking for various orders of the court to allow him to access all documents used by INEC for the conduct of the presidential election.

The ex-parte motion prayed for an order compelling INEC to allow them to inspect the register and other vital documents used in the conduct of the election unhindered.

In delivering its ruling, the panel ordered INEC to allow the appellant access to all electoral material to enable the applicant file and maintain an electoral petition.

However, the court refused prayers 3 to 5 which sort scanning and forensic audit.

It said that a forensic audit does not fall under the terms envisaged by section 151 of the electoral act.

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