The All Progressives Congress,
APC, has said it would respect the Supreme Court judgment concerning Rivers
State.
Speaking through the National
Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the party said it would abide
by the court ruling and would soon put measures in place to conduct fresh
congresses across the state.
Oshiomhole said this at a press
conference in Abuja on Friday.
Recall that the party had
yesterday said that in spite of the apex court decision, its candidate for the
governorship election remained Tonye Cole.
Making a U-turn, Oshiomhole said,
“On the judgment given by the Supreme Court, as a political party, we respect
the judiciary, we also appreciate that in truth and in fact, democracy is
basically about the celebration of the rule of law and not the rule of might.
“Based on this fact, which is not
a choice, we are obliged to respect the rule of law and at the heart of that is
total obedience to the letters and the spirit of judicial findings which are
not meant to be convenient.
“In a democracy, there are orders
that need to be obeyed.
“Therefore, the judgment by the
Supreme court in which from the first page to the last page, it is very clear
that the Supreme court has nullified the ward congresses that were done by my
predecessor in Rivers state and also nullified the state and local government
congresses that were done in the state because according to the Supreme Court,
those congresses were done in spite of a subsisting court order.
“What is important is that as
things stand, the highest court in the land has pronounced that those
congresses did not meet the requirements of the law and are therefore not
valid.
“As a law abiding party, we
accept the decision of the court and we will call a meeting in no distant
future of all the stakeholders in Rivers state to prepare them and to put the
necessary machinery in place to conduct fresh ward, local government and state
congresses in Rivers in line with the provisions of the constitution of the
APC. This we have to do in full obedience to the judgment of the Supreme
Court.”
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