The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the, just concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar on Saturday inaugurated his legal team to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential poll in court.
The legal team is headed by Livy Uzoukwu, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
Atiku lost Saturday’s presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari od the ruling APC by over three million votes but the former vice president rejected the election outcome and vowed to challenge it in court’
Atiku’s spokesman, Paul Ibe, revealed the inauguration of the legal team in a statement on Saturday.
Atiku said, “I have just inaugurated my legal team and charged them with the responsibility of ensuring that our stolen mandate is retrieved”.
“I am encouraged by the presence of fearless men and women of the Bench. The judiciary which had in the past discharged itself ably is once again being called upon to deliver judgement on this matter that will be untainted by lucre and uncowed by the threat of immoral power.”
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