The Federal Government has asked the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to apologize to Nigerians for willfully ‘distracting the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari with a frivolous election petition’.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in a statement issued on Thursday from St Petersburg, Russia, Punch reports.

He said while the PDP and its candidate reserve the right to pursue their petition to the highest level, “they will be better served by dropping their toga of desperation and realising that there is a limit to tomfoolery.”

The statement reads in part: ”Nigerians are tired of this orchestrated distraction, and will rather wish that the opposition, having lost at the polls and in court, will now join hands with the government to move Nigeria to the next level.

”This is more so that the judgement validating the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari was unanimous that the petition lacked merit, that the petitioners failed to prove any of the grounds upon which their case was anchored and that President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest the poll.”

TheLagostimes had earlier reported that the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja and headed by Justice M. L Garba commenced final judgment on the 2019 Presidential election on Wednesday.

Atiku Abubakar is challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in February election.