the Taraba State gubernatorial election tribunal in favour of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Aisha Alhassan, was 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, 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.
The PDP said if the tribunal was 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 PDP said 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 was totally confounded by the “brazen show of power by
the executive and warned that the development clearly portends
grave danger to our democracy and indeed national cohesion and
development”.
The party called on its members across the country, especially in
Taraba state, to remain undaunted as the appellate courts will restore
its well-deserved victory.
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