Go to court if you don’t accept Buhari’s victory, Enang tells PDP

Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang has challenged the opposition party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar to seek redress in court if they are aggrieved over the outcome of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections held February 23.

Enang said that there was no harm in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking justice in the court, if it will relieve them of their grievances.

Enang gave his position on Thursday in Abuja, after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari to congratulate him on his re-election.

He said that beyond the constitutionality of approaching the court, it will help them put their tempers in check.

“Let me first of all congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in the victory as president and vice president on the Next Level and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“I will urge the opposition party which has lost, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be matured in their statements and reactions and their decisions. If they have grievances, let them pursue the appropriate constitutional channel of a petition”.

He assured that the ruling All Progressives Congress will be magnanimous in victory as they would try not to humiliate those who lost the race.

“What we as a government and a people should do is to ensure that our statements, our actions, our celebrations and our reaction to those who lose should be tempered, temperate, measured, humble and such that are not capable of inciting the other party to anger.

“What we should also do, all of us in government, all those who have won as senators, members of the House of Representatives, our followers in the party should be that we speak less and work more to bring about unity and integration of those who have lost.

“The real winner in this election is the Nigerian voters; and we are conscious that about 11 million people voted for the other party while 15 million voted for our party.

“We will take steps to ensure that we keep the aspirations of those who voted, “he stated.

On the governorship election slated for March 9, he said stakeholders should be preoccupied in addressing some of the pitfalls identified in the Presidential and National Assembly polls.

He said, “In the next election we are going into on March 9, next week, what we should be looking at as a party and as a government, are those areas or pitfalls and address them so that there would be peaceful election.

“I will advice that all those who are going for the election, campaigning, the governorship candidates and the House of Assembly candidates who are going in for the elections, they should also measure their campaign words and they should maintain peace better than was maintained in the presidential and National Assembly elections.

“This election is closer to the people; closer to the grassroot and tempers are likely to be higher, so they should measure their campaign actions and speeches.

“The security agencies did well; they should maintain the tempo as they did so that their neutrality will be sustained; the police, the Army, NSCDC and all other security agencies should maintain absolute neutrality in that exercise; they should sustain it so that the credibility that has been given to this election by the monitors and the international community should be sustained”.