Imo: APC mounting pressure on Supreme Court ― PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of mounting pressure on the Supreme Court to prevent it from reversing the judgment on the Imo State governorship election.

The main opposition party maintained in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday that this was “despite obvious mistakes in the judgement, which is now threatening the stability of our nation.”

Signed by its national spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the statement, however, praised the apex court over its verdict on Bayelsa State governorship election, noting however that the elements and grounds for the demands by the PDP and majority of Nigerians for the reversal of Imo State governorship election judgment were completely different from those of Bayelsa.

The PDP explained that its demand on Imo was not in any way in contestation of the authority and finality of the Supreme Court but a patriotic effort to assist the Supreme Court to affirm its infallibility by correcting the inherent mistakes in the judgment, which it said, came as a result of misleading presentation to it by the APC.

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The statement added: “It is therefore instructive to note that the various election matters before the Supreme Court were brought on clearly distinctive grounds and each should be treated on its merit before the law.”

The party said the only reason APC was pushing for a review of the Supreme Court’s “valid and flawless judgment” on the Bayelsa and Zamfara governorship elections was to cause confusion and blackmail the Supreme Court from treating the Imo case on merit.

The PDP maintained that the grounds for the reversal of Imo judgment were unambiguously constitutional and completely distinct from APC’s attempt to blackmail the Supreme Court with their demands on the Bayelsa and Zamfara states governorship election.

The party, therefore, urged the Supreme Court not to succumb to the threats and blackmail by APC to push it to restrain itself from looking at the merit of the Imo case; correcting the mistakes and reversing the flawed judgment.