Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria has stated that it will approach the Supreme Court to revert its judgement which declared President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the 2019 Presidential election.
Similarly, the party is also asking for a review of the apex court’s judgment in respect of governorship election in Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Osun states which the party lost to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The same applies to the judgment on the Katsina governorship election petition, where lawyers also established similar issue of certificate forgery.
“The PDP equally has no choice than to ask the Supreme Court to review the Kano, Kaduna and Katsina election judgments, because of manifest violence and substantial non-compliance to our electoral law.
The main opposition party accused the APC of desperate attempts to subjugate and intimidate the Supreme Court, for the purpose of annexing the apex court over its judgments on Imo, Bayelsa and Zamfara governorship elections – all delivered in favour of the PDP.
The PDP had already approached the Supreme Court seeking a review and reversal of the court’s judgment on the Imo governorship election, in view of the “manifest mistakes and errors” in that judgment.
The party considered it ludicrous, ridiculous and insulting to the sensibilities and respect of the Supreme Court Justices for the APC to “hurriedly and malevolently” head to the Supreme Court to attempt to “arm twist” the lord justices to effect a forceful reversal of the “valid, flawless and faultless” judgments on Bayelsa and Zamfara states governorship elections.
The PDP vowed not to fold its hands and watch “enemies of our hard-earned democracy, who contributed nothing to its birth,” to continue to appropriate the nation’s collective sovereignty for selfish political gains while destroying the institutions and holding the people to ransom.”