The presidency has said that President Bola Tinubu has not interfered with the judgment of the judiciary in any way contrary to insinuations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement issued Monday said the country had witnessed how under his watch the PDP governor in Osun, Ademola Adeleke defeated the APC at the Supreme Court.
He added that similarly, the PDP Governor in Bauchi, Bala Mohammed also won his case in the Appeal court, beating the APC
Onanuga lamented that in separate statements, the PDP and the spokesman of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar threw caution to the winds as they assaulted the integrity of the judiciary and made wild and libelous allegations against Tinubu.
He noted: “In the wake of the poor run of some elected governors of the party at the appeal court, the PDP and former Vice President and his spokesman have become overtly desperate to hang their woes on President Tinubu and the judiciary, an important arm of government in Nigeria.
“In blaming others, Atiku and his party have failed to demonstrate whether they had done any soul-searching before going public with their weighty, specious, reckless and irresponsible allegations.”
Onanuga stressed that while they do not hold brief for the judiciary, he urged Nigerians to discountenance the malicious allegations by the PDP and Atiku that President Tinubu as governor of Lagos, silenced the opposition, corrupted the judiciary and that he was planning to foist a one-party state on the country by appointing “loyalists” as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).
He added: “President Tinubu is a democrat to the core. We make bold to say that as president, he has not interfered with the judgment of the judiciary.
“We had witnessed how under his watch the PDP governor in Osun defeated the APC at the Supreme Court. Similarly, the PDP Governor in Bauchi also won his case in the Appeal court, beating the APC.
“President Tinubu is also not planning to impose a one-party state as Atiku has serially alleged and his party and spokesman have now parroted.”
Onanuga stressed that these allegations are deliberately aimed at unnecessarily heating up the polity and causing disenchantment in our country.
He said they exist only in the imagination of the PDP and the former vice-president.