The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the Department of State Services of “hijacking” election petition tribunals.
It said the security outfit had been asked to influence the outcome of the governorship election petitions currently ongoing before tribunals in some states.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, made the allegation at a hurriedly convened press conference in Abuja on Saturday evening.
Metuh said he had it on “good authority that ” a prominent politician from one of the affected states met with the DSS where he claimed the directive that the judgments be influenced was given.
He alleged that the DSS had summoned the election petitions tribunal judges in order to allegedly give the direction their judgments should go.
He added, “The DSS has summoned tribunal judges to dictate what the judgments of the tribunal be.
“Yesterday, one of the ministerial nominees insisted that they (the DSS) should summon the tribunal judges to influence the judgement of his state.
“We have it on good authority that the DSS has interfered by summoning the tribunal members in some states, especially PDP controlled states like Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Abia and others.
“We want to inform the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on what is happening. We want to say that the judiciary is not an arm of another arm of government.”
Metuh insisted that the allegation was true and challenged the DSS to be bold enough to deny his allegation. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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wailing, moaning cant help a thing, got your opportunity to rule for ever, you blew it.... so please lets have peace, we can feel warmth from governance for once in Nigeria, no matter how you shout we would never ever believe you, because we can see the different between what we have been offered now and the last 16 years..... very clear, hugely clear, so stop distracting this government, or have you forgotten so soon what you guys were using same DSS FOR? where DSS Stockperson became government stockperson in your dispensation? ah it is too soon for you guys to forget.... now we have fuel in every fuel station in Nigeria and no one is crying about subsidy, Electricity is not only available but charges are gradually getting commensurate with supply it so good, Nigeria is getting back to its fit again so please leave us alone PDPPPPP!!!!!!!
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DeleteTrue talk. Can PDP come back to govern this country again? Are they deaf? See the huge amount of money some past ministers stole. Do they think we are fools. Methu, please go and find work to do.
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