ATIKU vs BUHARI -           The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has accused the federal government of planning to bribe 20 presidential candidates to endorse the “stolen victory” of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner having polled 15,191,847 votes as against Atiku’s 11,262,978 votes with a victory margin of 3,928,869 votes.

But Atiku has inaugurated his legal team headed by Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, to challenge the result of the February 23 poll.

It reads: “Malami has already held series of meetings with chairmen, secretaries and presidential candidates of these political parties that participated in the election.

“The Federal Government will be making a huge amount of money available to them to enable them to organise press conferences during which they will be calling on Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party to accept “defeat”

and not go to court to challenge the election result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,

“If indeed they are convinced that President Buhari won the election as they want the world to believe, why are they desperate to buy political parties into asking Atiku to drop the idea of going to court?