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Presidential Tribunal: PDP Govs Back Decision To Approach Supreme Court

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Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday threw their weights behind the party's decision to appeal the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which validated the election of Muhammadu Buhari. The Governors expressed optimism that President Buhari will be sacked by the Supreme Court.

The PDP Governors’ Forum made its position known in a statement signed and made available to newsmen by its chairman and Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson.

 

The governors pointed out that if the ruling of the tribunal was not challenged, it may become a clog in the wheel of the country’s democracy, as it will allegedly send wrong signals to future generations of Nigerians.

 

“After painstakingly and prudently understudying the line after line tenets of the judgment, 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 judgment, 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.”

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