PEPC: Investigative Journalist, David Hundeyin Alleges How President Tinubu, APC Plans To Influence Judiciary

President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been accused of cooking up plans to compromise the judiciary to influence the decision of the members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in the ongoing litigation instituted by the opposition candidates.

Naija News reports that Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin made this allegation during an interview on 90 Minutes Africa with Rudolf Okonkwo.

Hundeyin alleged that the APC did not make any effort to present a serious defense against the petition filed by the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, challenging the eligibility of Tinubu to contest the 2023 election.

He asserted further that the ruling party’s strategy is either to bribe judges with money or outrightly intimidate them.

“They made very little attempt to present a case because their entire strategy seems to be built on compromising the judiciary,” Hundeyin alleged.

He opined that even though Obi is on course with his legal campaign to retrieve his alleged stolen mandate, but tendencies are that the judiciary would make flimsy excuses of technicalities, therefore making outcomes difficult to predict.

“But Nigeria being as it is, it means anything can happen. The judges may agree with the submissions of Peter Obi and the Labour Party but still give judgment against them based on technicalities. We have seen all sought happen in Nigeria,” he added.

Recall candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party are challenging the declaration of the ruling party candidate as the winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

All the parties have since made their final submissions in the case, and the Tribunal has reserved judgment for a yet-to-be-determined date.