A political activist and former
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Comrade Timi Frank, has reacted to the judgement of Supreme Court on the Osun
State governorship election which favoured Isiaka Oyetola, saying that
democracy and judiciary are being stressed under Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Frank said that the rule of law
has been replaced with the rule of force, intimidation and blackmail under the
current administration.
Frank in a statement shortly after
the apex court’s verdict on Friday said:
“The Supreme Court’s ruling on
the Osun State gubernatorial petition is not surprising because the judgement
was already in public domain long before it was read because the Justices that
decided the case had been compromised by APC and General Buhari’s government
through outright blackmail, coercion, threats and intimidation.
“Nigerians do not need a
soothsayer or a prophet to know who the actual winner of the Osun State
Governorship election is. This judgement granting victory to the candidate of
the APC is nothing but a day light robbery against the people of Osun state and
by extension Nigeria.
“It is for this reason that the
Supreme Court did not take the Constitution into consideration but preferred to
use technicalities. Shame to the Supreme Court Justices for this laughable
judgement!
“Was it the fault of the
petitioner that Justice Peter Obiora was absent? Why should the petitioner,
Senator Ademola Adeleke pay for the absence of Justice Obiora?
“An illegal government has today
been forced on the people of Osun State by the Supreme Court. This is a
disgrace to the judiciary and it is abominable that the Supreme Court allowed
itself to be used to legalize this illegality.”
The political activist, however,
called on Nigerians to be vigilant and pay more attention to the Presidential
Election Tribunal which he believes will end up at the Supreme Court so as not
to allow a similar miscarriage of justice that just happened in Osun State to
repeat itself in the presidential election petition.
“We have it on good authority
that the APC is putting pressure on the Supreme Court to use similar
technicalities to throw out the presidential election petition when it gets to
them. They also plan to do the same in Sokoto and Kano states.
“I call on the youths and
Nigerians in general to rise up to the occasion and tell General Buhari and his
illegitimate government that they will not accept any form of injustice that
may take place in the presidential election petition.
“The Supreme Court Justices must
shun any form of inducement, coercion, blackmail, intimidation or threats to
their lives and families, by Gen. Buhari and his APC gang to rule in their
favour, as everybody know the true winner of the presidential election,
otherwise Nigerians will hold the Supreme Court Justices responsible.
“The Supreme Court Justices
should bear in mind that the future of Nigeria is at stake, this is about
Nigeria and not the Supreme Court Justices as the international community and
all Nigerians are watching and hoping that they will stand by the truth.
“This is the time for the Supreme
Court Justices to make history by borrowing a leaf from the Kenyan Supreme
Court and decide the rightful winner of the 2019 presidential election,” Frank
said.
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