The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshimohole has berated the Supreme Court over the nullification of the election of all the candidates of the party in Zamfara state and the subsequent declaration of the Peoples Democratic Party candidates as winners of the elections.
Oshiomhole who made the position of the party known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) issued the Certificate of Return to the governorship candidate of the PDP said APC did not get justice at the Supreme Court.
He further described the judgment as undemocratic, stressing that it was wrong for the court to impose strangers on the people.
“How can you ask me how I feel if the people of Zamfara voted for us in the manner that they did and the court says that those votes were wasted? Meanwhile, at the time those votes were cast, a high court had ruled that those candidates were validly nominated.
“There is something that I learnt from Lord Denning, a famous British Supreme Court Justice, that the law has to be interpreted taking into account the intention of the lawmakers and try to deliver justice in its purest form.
“So, there is no justice when on the ground of technicalities, you imposed on the people of Zamfara State, not just a man or a woman, but whole party candidates from governor to senate and others that they didn’t elect.
“If the court thought we were wrong, the justice would have demanded that we repeat. But you cannot use technicalities because we are in a democracy, there is nothing democratic when the court imposes strangers to govern a people.
“But we understand that after the Supreme Court, we can only go to the Court of God. To that extent, we must obey the Court. But what we got in Zamfara is a judgment that didn’t translate to justice.”
