The Presidency has berated former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for questioning the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and all his comments on it.

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has also reacted to the world press conference addressed by Alhaji Abubakar describing him as a serial loser.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, who spoke for the presidency in a statement on Monday, said Alhaji Abubakar must now end his “unprofitable” bid to become the President of Nigeria.

Mr. Onanuga said there was no way Alhaji Abubakar and PDP could have won the election with the party platform under which he contested broken into four parts.

He said: “we were wrong to expect that Atiku at 77 would play the statesman and sportsman and accept, with equanimity, the verdict of the highest court and the people of Nigeria.

“Instead, he unashamedly constituted himself into a demagogue and anarchist in the way and manner he sought to pull down and delegitimize all the institutions of State, all in a futile bid to achieve what he could not get via the ballot box”, he stressed.

According to him,the PDP candidate in the 25 February election tried very hard to perfect his act of misinformation by seeking to lay claim to faux morality and higher ideals when in actual fact his entire life is antithetical to any higher ideals.

“For instance, Atiku claimed he worked along with others to end military rule in Nigeria when he was known to be in bed with the same junta who held democracy hostage and incarcerated his mentor, Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (rtd), till death. He distanced himself from him while in detention to keep alive his governorship ambition on the platform of one of those inglorious Abacha political parties.

“Atiku’s brand of politics is such that once an electoral process or election does not go his way or pave the way for his victory, democracy becomes dysfunctional and must therefore be imperiled. For him, democracy should either go his way or the highway”,he stressed.

The presidency, however, has a message for the former Vice President: “We want to advise Atiku that after over three decades of elusive bid for the Presidency of Nigeria, he must now end his unprofitable bid and go away from any venture that will further pollute the political atmosphere and national harmony”.

APC spokesman, Mr. Felix Morka in a statement issued in Abuja said Nigeria was greater than Alhaji Abubakar’s unrealised presidential ambition.

Following his defeat at the apex court, Alhaji Abubakar said the Nigerian judiciary has become the “lost hope” of the common man.

He also claimed that incontrovertible evidence showed that President Tinubu broke the law by submitting a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

However, the APC spokesperson said the PDP standard bearer should accept defeat as a statesman.

His words: “It is delusional for Atiku, and his degenerate PDP, to have expected the courts to rely on their bogus, flimsy, unverifiable, uncorroborated, illogical and hearsay evidence to upturn an election that was conducted in substantial compliance with the Constitution and electoral laws of our land.

“Thankfully, it does not lie in Atiku’s mouth to declare what constitutes ‘incontrovertible evidence’.

“That is the constitutional duty of the courts, which they have discharged honorably and creditably.

“For a serial election loser whose life ambition is to rule the country, we understand how pained and utterly distraught Atiku must be.

“Atiku, you are right that this is not and cannot be all about you. Yes, it is about Nigeria. Nigeria is greater than your unrealized ambition to be president. Nigeria must move and has moved on.”