PDP Election Protest: Stop dancing ‘skelewu’, causing gridlocks on Abuja streets, Tinubu warns Atiku
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the incoming president, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party PDP’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to respect his great age and cease following court jesters like Dino Melaye to dance’skelewu’ and causing traffic congestion in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
Tinubu was responding to Atiku and other PDP leaders’ protest at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday.
What is Skelewu?
David Adeleke (Davido) popularized the Skelewu’ dance style with his song of the same name.
Tinubu stated that it was odd that a former vice president of the country could be so idle as to disturb the public peace, describing the action as a new low and a theater of the absurd.
Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity for the All Progressives Congress APC Presidential Campaign Council, said in a statement that when Atiku told the world last week that he would seek redress in court over the outcome of the 25 February Presidential election, the PCC had no idea that he had no intention of keeping his promise.
“Given his political pedigree, it was hardly surprising that, days later, Atiku led a group of protesters, or jesters, to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in Abuja.
“What Alhaji Atiku and his motley crew displayed today was a new low for the perennial election loser.
“With Atiku putting on a show of the absurd, we fail to see how a small crowd’s march to INEC will provide a victory window for him and the splintered PDP. After the electoral umpire declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu the president-elect, Atiku’s only recourse is the Election Petition Tribunal.
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“Instead of Atiku and his party wisely spending their time gathering the ‘evidence’ they hope to present to the courts, they are dancing’skelewu’ on the streets and causing traffic congestion for Federal Capital Territory residents on their way to work on a Monday morning.
The APC PCC stated, “We do not expect a former Vice President of Nigeria, a statesman, and a Presidential candidate to be so unemployed as to have the time to disturb public peace over an electoral result he had already stated he would challenge in court.”
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