The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has declared its support to the party’s decision to approach the Supreme Court to challenge last Wednesday’s judgement of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, which went against the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2019 presidential poll.
According to press statement issued from its secretariat in Abuja Sunday, the chairman of the forum and governor of Bayelea State, Henry Seriake Dickson, said members of the forum have rejected the judgement.
The forum said “if [the judgement is not] challenged at the apex court, it may constitute a hog in the wheel of our developing democracy, aside sending wrong signals to our teeming youths and laying a faulty moral foundation for generations of Nigerians yet unborn.”
According to the statement, “After painstakingly and prudently understudying the line after line tenets of the judgement, several holes were picked and countless anomalies identified by us.
“We would be doing a greater disservice and moral injustice to our party, our democracy and Nigerians in general if we turn blind eyes, swallow such bile and applaud that rape of justice.
“The judgement to say the least has further painted our judiciary with darker colours, only this time around with a never-before-seen blemished coat of tar.
“However, we are hopeful that the Supreme Court will re-write that history by ensuring that such stains and tar are removed from our judicial archives.
“The apex court should know that its integrity is at stake and in order to avoid it been shredded to particles, must employ all known technicalities to save our nation and the future of Nigerians yet unborn from a development that may further make us a perpetual laughing stock amongst the comity of nations. And Nigerians are very hopeful that these wrongs will be righted.
“Without any iota of trepidation, it is most paramount for us to once more restate and reconfirm our undiluted loyalty, deserving support and maximum commitment to our great party and the Atiku-Obi Presidential ticket. This is our stand, now and in the future. Posterity would judge us harshly if we did otherwise.”
