PDP, APC clash over lmo verdict
Vows to reverse verdict, as it threatens civil disobedienceThe cold war between the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party which was sparked by this week’s ruling of the Supreme Court on the Imo State governorship election escalated on Friday after the opposition party threatened civil disobedience over ‘nation’s drift’.
The National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, had earlier on Thursday deplored the Supreme Court for the ruling and called for the resignation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria,Justice Tanko Mohammed. “In fact, between the returning officer and INEC as well as the Judges at the tribunal and the majority of the judges at the Court of Appeal level, they excised these 388 units as if they are not part of Imo State.
“Nigerians should imbibe the culture of free and fair election. Only God can predict who will always win election. “When they make a statement such as this is a coup; this is a threat to our democracy.They behave as if they have another passport. But the rest of us who have only one passport, the green passport, this democracy has come to stay. We must contribute our own quota to deepen it by obeying the rules of the game.
“PDP can never, whether on ground of morality or on account of their known history, pronounce in a manner in which they did as if they are not the ones who laid foundation for all the challenges we are facing in our democracy. “I did a press conference and said that we accepted the judgement of the Supreme Court. We said in spite of the pains in our heart, we said we would do what the court said should be done.
He accused PDP leaders of being short sighted saying, “PDP leaders are being short sighted when they frontally attack the judiciary when they lose an election and when they win, no matter how unfairly in the eyes of the ordinary people, it is democracy at work and the rule of law has prevailed. “So we repose confidence in the Supreme Court and all judges as well as those of the Court of Appeal. This is what we are obliged to do in a democracy based on the principles of separation of power. It is not for nothing that the PDP is asking for the resignation of the Chief Justice. They tried to dictate which judges should hear their cases.”
“But bad examples cannot be the basis for making progress, we are not about to copy him, but it is important that we remind Nigerians that talking about electoral fraud, talking about manipulating institutions of democracy that Atiku cannot be the advocate. He contributed his own beat to undermining democracy.
It regretted what it described as the destruction of the nation’s democratic values, ethos and principles. “We totally condemn the utter desecration of judicial values, climaxing in the national embarrassment of the Supreme Court manufacturing votes and relating same to the APC and its candidate in the Imo governorship election, thereby robbing the people of the state of their mandate freely given to our candidate, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha.
“We will not allow the judiciary, legislature, security agencies and other institutions of government and democracy to become departments of the APC”. “But what cannot wait is that we should not take for granted what has been happening in our democratic processes from the role of the Independent National Electoral Commission , security agencies and the judiciary.
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