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PDP commends Supreme Court judgment on Sokoto, Bauchi, others

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 9:14 PM by Nnenna Ibeh

- The PDP has commended the Supreme Court's judgement o Sokoto, Bauchi, Adamawa and Benue governorship elections

- The party said its governors in these states won the elections

- According to the PDP, any disposition to the contrary would have further diminished the hard-earned image of the highest court

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, January 21, commended the Supreme Court for upholding the elections of Governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, Bala Mohammed of Bauchi, Samuel Ortom of Benue and Ahmed Fintiri of Adamawa state.

The opposition party said it maintains that its governors in these states won the elections and any disposition to the contrary would have further diminished the hard-earned image of the highest court.

However, citing the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Imo governorship election which nullified the victory of Emeka Ihedioha while handing over power to All Progressives Congress Hope Uzodinma, the PDP said the party would not in any way sway to abandon or even diminish the nationwide agitation for a judicial review and reversal of the miscarriage of justice by the apex court.

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A statement signed by the PDP's national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, said by upholding the Sokoto, Bauchi, Benue and Adamawa elections, the Supreme Court has shown that it can still be trusted to assert its independence.

PDP commends Supreme Court judgment on Sokoto, Bauchi, others — The opposition party said it maintains that its governors in these states won the elections
Source: UGC

Ologbodiyan said the apex court can further redeem its image by immediately reversing its defective and widely condemned judgment on Imo state.

He said the Nigerians would still be agitated and the image, as well as public confidence on the Supreme Court, will still not be fully redeemed until the Court summons the expected courage to review and reverse itself on the Imo judgment, in line with the consensus already expressed by citizens across the board.

He warned that miscarriage of justice in the Imo judgment is glaring, given the established fact that the Supreme Court allegedly conjured strange figures as votes and donated same to the APC and its candidate, Senator Hope Uzodimma.

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Ologbodiyan said the apex court used the unfounded figure as the basis to declare a party that came fourth as the winner of the election.

He said: "What is most embarrassing is that in allocating the conjured figures to the APC, the Supreme Court became caught in a web, as the total number of votes suddenly jumped to 950,952, over and above INEC’s 823, 743 official number of accredited voters for the election."

The party congratulating Governors Tambuwal, Ortom, Fintiri and Bala Mohammed also urged them to continue in the path of good governance for which they were elected, in line with the manifesto and vision of the PDP.

It also called on all PDP elected and appointed officials as well as members, teeming supporters and Nigerians across the board to continue the demand for a judicial review on Imo.

The party said it will continue to toe that path until justice is seen to have been done on the Imo matter.