Atiku said this in his response on Wednesday to Tinubu’s and APC’s reply to his petition challenging the process and the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

Abuja, as constitutionally required.

He insisted that the return of Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election is undue, unlawful and invalid because Tinubu did not meet the constitutional requirements as to qualification.

Rather than addressing the issues raised against him and the disputed election, Atiku said Tinubu deliberately chose not to answer points of substance in the petition and opted for extraneous facts and contradictory, evasive, speculative and vague assertions.

In reaction to another issue raised against his petition, the Atiku claimed his petition did not in any way constitute a gross abuse of any court process, adding that the originating summons of February 28, 2023, filed at the Supreme Court by Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Sokoto states have since been discontinued.

At any rate, Atiku said the parties in the suit of the six PDP-controlled states are not the same in his own petition and therefore prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to discountenance the objections and the averments raised against the petition by Tinubu and grant him all the reliefs sought in the petition.

Meanwhile, Media Adviser to Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe said the only thing common between Atiku and Tinubu is the year 1993.

He said while it was the year that Atiku started his presidential campaign run, it was also the same year that Tinubu fell to the US justice system over his indictment and conviction for drug trafficking and money laundering for which he forfeited a whopping sum of $460,000.