The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has subtly incited Nigerians, especially the youths to take action against President Bola Tinubu’s government.

According to Atiku, Nigerians know the danger Tinubu’s stay in office portends, so they should decide what to do about it.

Atiku, a former Vice President said this while addressing journalists during a world press conference in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Monday.

He asserted that it is for the younger generation whose futures are to be shaped by Tinubu to decide what they want to do with the knowledge of how he got to power.

He said, “Nigerians know more about the person sitting in office as their President and how he got there, and the dangers that it portends for them and the country.

“It is for them, especially the younger generation whose futures are to be shaped by that man, to decide what they want to do with the knowledge.

Atiku also said, “When people lose trust and confidence in elections, democracy is practically on life support. And by affirming and legitimizing the continued lack of transparency in our electoral system the courts are continuing to usurp the rights of voters to elect their leaders.

“The other grave implication is that contestants in Nigeria’s elections should do whatever is necessary to be declared the winner. That includes identity theft, impersonation, forging of educational and other documents, perjury, and violence.

“And, as they do so, they should ignore whatever the law says and whatever assurances from the leadership of the electoral umpire about what the law says and what they would do in compliance.

“And they would do so knowing that our courts would approve of their behaviour or at best pretend not to take any notice of it. The third is that if you are robbed of victory, do not bother going to court for redress because your glaring evidence of the robbery will be ignored in favour of the mandate bandit.

“Also, your lawyers, however distinguished and accomplished, may be ridiculed by the judges who may also go out of their way to make even a stronger case for the so-called “winner” than even their own lawyers were able to do. These are clearly self-help strategies and actions bereft of the law and constitutionalism. Only lawlessness and anarchy will result from such, with violence, destruction and implosion and loss of our country likely to follow.

“I believe that we still have a small window to prevent these from happening. I still believe that we can rescue this country from the strange imposters that have seized it illegally and are holding it by the jugular.

“Let me caution that the leaders of those African countries that have completely collapsed into chaos never came together one day and agreed to collapse their countries. Rather their countries collapsed because of the incremental and compounding individual and collective utterances and actions of those leaders.”

Atiku also stated that the outcome of the suit filed against the election shows that “all is not well”.

He said his evidence shows that INEC violated the Electoral Act to declare Tinubu president.

“The Supreme Court outcome even though final shows that all is not well,” he said, adding that retired Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad, recently gave a pointer to the situation in the judiciary.

Atiku said when INEC and the judiciary are enmeshed in controversy, democracy cannot thrive.