The claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is not a Nigerian has caused an uproar in the Nigerian Twitter community.
The APC had told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that Atiku was a Cameroonian and was not qualified to have contested the Presidential election.
However, the APC’s submission before the Tribunal got many talking on Twitter with some saying the APC lawyers were wrong because the “1963 plebiscite conferred citizenship to all people that were hitherto part of Cameroon that chose Nigeria as country”.
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You are accused of stealing meat from the general household cooking pot by fellow household members and your best response was- “he is not a member of the household, he is a Cameroonian”
The things we hear from our neighbors though….
Stay calm…#AtikuIsComing
— Kola Ologbondiyan (@officialKolaO) April 13, 2019
It appears the answer Aso Rock gave to the opposition’s allegations of rigging of 2019 elections is that Atiku is a Cameroonian. ????
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju???????? (@adeyanjudeji) April 12, 2019
If APC managers are daft I wonder if there lawyers too are daft as well, because every student of law should know that the 1963 plebiscite conferred citizenship to all people that were hitherto part of Cameroon that chose Nigeria as country
— Hamma (@HAHayatu) April 12, 2019
"Buhari is JUBRIL from Sudan."
"Atiku is from CAMEROON"
????????????????Abeg America should epp us check if we are not from Egypt
????????????— Kemi Ariyo (@d_problemsolver) April 13, 2019
Places like Ngala, Dikwa, Gwoza, Mubi, Jada, Ganye, Mambila etc were all part of Cameroon or but were later UN protectorate after the defeat of Germany in the second world war. In 1963 they were ask to choose which country to go to and they chose Nigeria through plebiscite
— Hamma (@HAHayatu) April 12, 2019
Obasanjo is your hero but he said Atiku has paternal issues. Nnamdi Kanu is your hero, he said Atiku is from Cameroon! In fact, Kanu said he would remove his underwear if his allegation on Atiku is false.
— Ayekooto (@DeeOneAyekooto) April 13, 2019
Buhari is from Chad
Atiku is from Cameroon
The Igbos are from IsraelBefore you start querying my Nationality tommorrow because of politics
I want to start without ambiguity that
I am a Nigerian
I repeat
I am from Nigeria
I possess a green passport
Thank u for ur understanding pic.twitter.com/Gt6BOF50HR— Comrade ???????????? (@iAGB4REAL) April 13, 2019
As at the time Atiku was born Southern Cameroon was not a part of Nigeria until 1961. Atiku was already 15yrs old.
It is left for the court to decide the matter before it cos the Nigerian Constitution says 2b President u must be a Nigerian by "Birth"!— Demi Khay???????????????????????? (@Lboogie_K) April 13, 2019
Atiku was born on November 25, 1946, in Jeda, Adamawa, in Northern Cameroon and is, therefore, a citizen of Cameroon and not Nigerian by birth.
APC tells election tribunal
— Chris Ososa Asuelime (@OsosaChris) April 13, 2019
Atiku wasn’t Cameroonian when Mr Integrity flew in his private jet in 2015.
Just when you think Buhari led APC has got their acts together, they score another new low!
I wonder the type of weed Oshiomole, Lie Mohamed & their lawyers are smoking????????????????? pic.twitter.com/g0UZLhxXgm
— ????????I AM A DEMOCRAT.Free Thinker(Alpha Female)???????? (@firstladyship) April 13, 2019