Paul Ibe, media aide of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Lai Mohammed, minister of information, “smokes certified weed”.

Ibe said this while responding to the demand of Mohammed that Atiku should apologise to Nigerians for distracting the government by appealing the verdict of the presidential election petition tribunal.

TheLagostimes had reported that on Wednesday, the tribunal dismissed the petitions of Atiku and the PDP against the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last election.

The minister had, in a statement on Thursday, said Atiku approached the tribunal “with a fraudulently-obtained evidence”.

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.”

Reacting via a Twitter post on Thursday, Ibe questioned the “type of weed” the information minister smokes.

His tweet reads: “Lai: Atiku should apologise to Nigerians.

“Me: For real? What type of weed are you smoking? It can only be #CertifiedWeed.”

Lai: Atiku should apologise to Nigerians.

Me: For real? What type of weed are you smoking? It can only be #CertifiedWeed.https://t.co/knu0MnOGWs

— Justice Paul Ibe (Affidavit) (@omonlakiki) September 12, 2019