2027: 'Heaven is not going to fall if Atiku will not be on poll' – Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says the heavens is not going to fall if the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will not be on the poll for the 2027 normal elections.

Keyamo stated this in a press release posted on his verified X deal with on Friday.

His comment comes barely 24 hours after the Federal High Court in Abuja nullified the David Mark-led management of the African Democratic Congress and voided Atiku’s nomination because the occasion’s candidate.

According to Keyamo, these attacking the judgment are solely offended as a result of it didn’t go their method.

“You cannot abuse judges and blackmail the judiciary when it doesn’t go your way. Heavens will not fall if a certain Atiku Abubakar is not on the ballot in 2027,” Keyamo wrote.

Recall that Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment on Thursday, the place he dominated that the Mark-led caretaker committee was unlawful after Nafiu Bala, a former deputy nationwide chairman of the ADC, challenged it in court docket.

The court docket’s ruling has generated reactions from each quarter of the nation; nonetheless, the minister says legislation is predicated on info and proof, not on sentiment or noise on social media.

He informed Atiku to do not forget that the All Progressives Congress, APC, has additionally misplaced in court docket earlier than and accepted the end result with out attacking judges.

He pointed to Zamfara in 2019, when the Supreme Court cancelled the victories of all APC candidates within the state, from governorship to meeting contestants, and handed them to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.