PDP Hails Supreme Court Judgment on Bayelsa, Restates Call for Review of Imo Verdict
The Peoples Democratic Party Thursday said that it received the judgment of the Supreme Court restoring its mandate in the Bayelsa State governorship election, but stated that the apex court must right the wrongs in the Imo State governorship election judgment.
The party said in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, that the Bayelsa judgment will not change the course of its demand that the Supreme Court rectifies the manifest and widely rejected mistakes contained in its judgment on the Imo State governorship election. The PDP restated that the miscarriage of justice in the Imo State judgment is glaring given the established fact that the panel assumed the roles of the Independent National Electoral Commission by recognizing the votes concocted by the All Progressives Congress and Senator Hope Uzodimma, which ended up increasing the total number of votes in the election to 950,952, over and above the INEC certified total accredited votes of 823,743.
It said that the same Supreme Court had also disqualified Uche Nwosu from the election for having acquired the governorship ticket of two political parties — the APC and the Action Alliance — an aberration to the electoral laws.
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