The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Saturday’s judgment of the Taraba state gubernatorial election tribunal in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Hajia Aisha Jummai Alhassan is another evidence of executive interference in the judiciary.
The party said the reason given by the tribunal for arriving at the bizarre decision is intriguing and further exposes the contradictions and double standards inherent in most tribunal rulings against PDP interests recently.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh said in a statement on Saturday that the Taraba state tribunal ruling again brings to the fore the organized plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal Government to deploy all unorthodox means to decimate the opposition.
“It is rather curious and a great conflict of irony that the Taraba tribunal sitting in Abuja on security grounds faulted the conduct of PDP primaries shifted to the same Abuja on security reasons”, the party stressed.
The PDP said if the tribunal is faulting the party primaries as basis for its decision, it then means that no APC gubernatorial candidate can stand the test, as their party never had acceptable primaries in any of their states.
The PDP wants democracy watchers globally to recall that it had earlier alerted the nation and the international community of the grand design by the APC to use the judiciary to wrestle some PDP states, particularly Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Taraba states.
“Evidence that Taraba ruling was a product of Presidency manipulation can be deduced from the fact that few hours before the judgment was delivered, the APC had arrogantly announced their victory on the new media”, it said.
PDP said it is totally confounded by the brazing show of power by the executive and warned that the development clearly portends grave danger to our democracy and indeed national cohesion and development.
Finally the party calls on its members across the country, especially in Taraba state to remain undaunted as the appellate courts will restore its well-deserved victory. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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The era of despotism has returned to Nigeria. Cry My Beloved Country. Abuja has now become the seat of state electoral tribunal judgements against the opposition . First was Rivers state where the same basis used to throw out the petition of APGA AND LABOUR parties were used to nullify the election of Wike. Now the Fulani headed tribunal which was relocated to Abuja for security reasons ( acceptable ) has ejected a primary election relocated to the same city for the same excuse. What a laughable judgement. It's time PDP starts calling the bluff of all these stupid judgements and let the heavens fall. I suggest that Europeans be brought in for electoral issues because the average Nigerian judge can not be trusted I. Such a case.
ReplyDeleteDo u guys have a problem of understanding. Read well. What does PMB got to do with this. Tribunal n Primaries are not the same processes. Nigerians sense of judgements are all beclouded
DeleteThis judgment is laughable. I pity dis country. A tribunal dat was shifted to Abuja for security reasons is faulting a primary election dat was shifted to d same Abuja for security reasons. Wot a world.
ReplyDeleteNigeria is lost... Buhari will finish Nigeria to the last
ReplyDeleteKeep quiet no be by force to contribute on this platform.
ReplyDeletePoor Nigerians. ..always carried away by news they read. They never bother to find out the truth for themselves.
ReplyDeletePlease tell us d truth...unless u r now doubting d competence of nigerianeye...
DeleteGuys don't read PDPs story alone and judge. You need to read the judgement. The annulment of PDP candidate who happens to be the current elected Governor, was not because PDP had its primaries in Abuja but bcos the said primary was conducted out of regulation time, cline destined, and not inclusive of all stakeholders required by law. Except you want the beer parlour primaries to continue in Nigeria, my take is, this is Indeed a good point we should articulate and the need to sustain the judgement. If I were PDP, I would do my research on all APC primaries and use this judgement to nail them.
ReplyDeleteAh Ah! What kind of judgment is this?
ReplyDeleteWhere are we headed to? Everyday we keep hearing and seeing unbelievable stories in this country. How come Inec did not disqualify Isiaku Darius ab initio until after the election, swearing in abd all those stuff? Nigeria cannot be a one party state, let Buhari and his cohorts in the Apc know this This verdict is criminal, evil, undemocratic and un accetable.
ReplyDeleteYou people should stop ranting.We all knew what PDP did.God never sleeps
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DeleteIndeed lets the idiot keep quite. PDP held democracy for 16yrs and APC is less than 6mths see how things are going sour. Every agbaro in the motor park knows that Taraba ruling is a scam and shameful to hearing of ordinary Nigerian. If PDP were working towards one party system, no single political party would have stand. Let the court of appeal clear this mess jooo!
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