State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal judgment in favour of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, in the April 11
elections, Mrs Aisha Alhassan as "another evidence of executive
interference" in the judiciary.
The party said the reason given by the tribunal for arriving at what
it termed "bizarre decision" is intriguing and further exposed the
"contradictions and double standards" inherent in most tribunal
rulings against PDP interests recently.
A statement on Saturday by PDP national publicity secretary, Mr Olisa
Metuh, said the Taraba State tribunal ruling "brought to the fore the
organized plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC federal
government to deploy all unorthodox means to decimate the opposition."
The PDP said if the tribunal is faulting the party's 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 party said it was "totally confounded by the brazing (sic) show of
power" by the executive and warned that the development "clearly
portends grave danger to the country's democracy, national cohesion
and development."
The party called on its members across the country, especially in
Taraba State to remain undaunted "as the appellate courts would
restore its well-deserved victory."
It said "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 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."
-ChannelsTV
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