Read What PDP Said About Taraba Tribunal Judgment
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said the 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.
Chief Olisa Metuh, PDP National Publicity Secretary, said in a
statement on Saturday said that the Taraba state tribunal ruling was a
manipulation by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal
Government using 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.
Metuh further said the continuous use of executive power to win
court judgement will not work well for the APC led government as the PDP
will do all within its power to stop the anomaly. He chided the
Judiciary for its weakness in allowing the Executive to manipulate it.
He called on all party members across the country to remain
undaunted as the party is prepared and ready to challenge the ruling in
the appellate courts, assuring all members of victory.
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