The Coalition for Justice in Africa, CJA, on Wednesday, flayed the judgement of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which sacked four members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau State, from the National Assembly, based on a pre-election dispute.
The group, in a statement it made available to newsmen in Abuja, maintained that the appellate court judgement would set a dangerous precedent in the electoral jurisprudence in the country.
It ordered that candidates that got the second majority lawful votes at the election, should be sworn in as winners of the legislative seats. Okwa said the CJA was at a loss as to how an internal party affair of a political party should be in the interest of another party and on which basis the judgment was passed.He said the verdict was capable of not only setting a dangerous precedence but equally opening a gateway to endless litigation in the future.
“It is also evident that some powerful forces have taken control of the country’s judiciary. These vested interests would spare nothing in their insatiable desire to continue to rape democracy in Nigeria,” he added “This is what played out at the Appeal Court, and it is such a shame that the custodians of the law have bastardized the law.
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