The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said Saturday’s judgment of the Taraba State gubernatorial election petition tribunal in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Aisha Alhassan, was another evidence of executive interference in the judiciary.
The party said the reason given by the tribunal for arriving at what it termed a “bizarre” decision, is intriguing and further exposes the contradictions and double standards inherent in most tribunal rulings against PDP interests recently.
The PDP’s position was contained in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh. According to the statement, “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 was faulting the party’s 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 said 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 was totally confounded by the “brazen show of power by the executive and warned that the development clearly portends grave danger to our democracy and indeed national cohesion and development”.
The party, however, called on its members across the country, especially in Taraba State, to remain unshaken as the appellate courts will restore its well-deserved victory. For more scintillating and juicy stories, follow the official Naijapals accounts On Twitter - https://twitter.com/Naijapals and Facebook - www.facebook.com/naijapals
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Posted: at 7-11-2015 07:52 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Tomorrow someone will tell me Buhari is fighting corruption, corruption starts when you use your power and position to start manipulating things for your own selfish interest.
Posted: at 7-11-2015 08:28 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
PDP una too like complain, waitin una do all years in power, abi na now wey another party done enter una wan begin make correction, make una go steep till next election that is if una go win ooh though say i nor get party and i nor wan even vote but i nor like those set of people wet rule naija under umbrella, ciao
Posted: at 7-11-2015 09:12 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
But to be sincere I think the court decision have to be looked into to ascertain that the decision is right... Though am sure it has nothing to the with the President.
U Self Go Like Am...
Posted: at 7-11-2015 10:05 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
sugarwealth at 7-11-2015 11:06 PM (9 years ago) (f)
And that is how APC, even after election and swearing in, will do anything to cancel the governorship and regain that state for APC. We are watching u closely
Posted: at 7-11-2015 11:06 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
freethinker at 8-11-2015 12:07 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Quote from: koboko1 on 7-11-2015 08:28 PM
Tomorrow someone will tell me Buhari is fighting corruption, corruption starts when you use your power and position to start manipulating things for your own selfish interest. REMAIN BLESSED! BUHARI KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING, BUT HE WILL SURELY FAIL.
Posted: at 8-11-2015 12:07 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Hmmm... Buhari can't be blamed for this na... He is fighting corruption and not the Judiciary... perhaps even the President has no power over the Judiciary.
U Self Go Like Am...
Posted: at 8-11-2015 12:23 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
chealseafc at 8-11-2015 01:59 AM (9 years ago) (m)
only in Nigeria. use whatever means to get what you want. if PDP has been doing it this way since, APC wouldn't have emerged. i guess next will be EKITI state.
Posted: at 8-11-2015 01:59 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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