Press Statement
Taraba; Conclusive Evidence Of Judicial
Double Standard Against The PDP
Hajia Aisha Jummai Alhassan
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Saturday’s
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.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh
said in a statement on Saturday that the 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.
*Olisa Metuh
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.
PDP said it is totally confounded by the brazing
show of power by the executive and warned that the development clearly portends
grave danger to our democracy and indeed national cohesion and development.
Finally the party calls on its members across the
country, especially in Taraba state to remain undaunted as the appellate courts
will restore its well-deserved victory.
Signed
Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
November 7, 2015
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