{"id":107635,"date":"2023-09-08T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107635"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:43:11","slug":"timi-frank-to-shettima-only-god-can-retire-atiku-not-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/timi-frank-to-shettima-only-god-can-retire-atiku-not-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Timi Frank to Shettima: Only God can retire Atiku not man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1776467884777867831\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All\u00a0 Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, told Vice President Kashim Shettima that no man can retire the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from politics in the country, except God.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nFrank reacted to a delusional statement by Shettima where he boasted that he would \u201cretire Atiku and teach him how to rear goats and boilers\u201d following the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court on petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cShettima should know that one with God, as they say, is majority. Atiku has the majority and this is why Nigerians did not jubilate nor celebrate the pyrrhic affirmation through judicial coup orchestrated by the PEPC affirming Tinubu as the winner of the Presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why Shettima in<br \/>\ngloating over the predetermined and compromised PEPC verdict like a child just handed a cup of iced-cream by the mother, cannot but notice that all is quiet across Nigeria, including Lagos and Borno States, because the people know the justices ruled in Tinubu\u2019s and APC\u2019s favour notwithstanding the preponderance of hard facts and evidence adduced before them which show that Tinubu never won the last Presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said in spite of Shettima\u2019s unstatesmanlike comment, \u201csome of us know that Atiku and Peter Obi remain the heroes of democracy in Nigeria and Nigerians will never forget their struggle for a free, fair and transparent democratic system in the country irrespective of whether they get justice in the instant election petition case or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cwhat happened in Nigeria on Wednesday was a judicial coup against the Nigerian state. It wasn&#8217;t justice. It was an ambush\u00a0 against the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShettima and his gang may celebrate a stolen mandate against the will and wishes of majority of Nigerians now, but a time will come when they will feel the impact of what transpired when the judiciary brazenly decided to jettison substance, facts and evidence adduced before them and ruled against Nigerians for their personal gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East,\u00a0 called on Shettima to apologise to Atiku and Nigerians over his unguarded statement which was \u201capparently borne out of crash impunity and arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cA man like Shettima who has been accused times without number of sponsorship of Boko Haram ought to be in jail right now rather than walking free without any modicum of respect for elders and with a stolen mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ought to be begging God for forgiveness seeing the many atrocities Boko Haram has committed in the North and the attendant deaths, ruination of lives and devastation of property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called on the Judiciary to use Atiku\u2019s and Obi\u2019s decision to approach the Supreme Court to redeem its image.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Atiku for his resilience and doggedness in the pursuit of justice and in upholding the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>He said despite Atiku\u2019s disagreement with the ruling of the Appeal Court\u2019s Justices, the former Vice President\u00a0 demonstrated his abiding faith in the Nigerian judiciary by opting to subject the verdict to further scrutiny by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the judiciary use the opportunity to redeem itself. Despite Nigerians have lost confidence and hope in the judicial process, they have been presented with another opportunity to either destroy Nigeria finally or write their names in gold through fearless, courageous and truthful decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtiku and Obi are doing everything\u00a0 possible to bring hope to Nigerians in their decision to give the judiciary a second chance as men of integrity who strongly believe in a free, fair, democratic process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All\u00a0 Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, told Vice President Kashim Shettima that no man can retire the Presidential candidate of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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