The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday resolved to go on street protest over alleged miscarriage of justice by the Supreme Court that sacked its former party Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha. The party took the decision at the end of the party’s 87th National Executive Council Emergency Meeting held at the main opposition party’s headquarters in Abuja. It said the alleged miscarriage of Justice was not only against the PDP but the people of Nigeria.
The National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus while speaking said, “This s a miscarriage of Justice. Justice will come under God Almighty. But we must work, we must speak out, otherwise, it means we have consented to the injustice from the ruling party, APC.
“Does the supreme court has the right under the law to formulate and allocate votes as election results?
“Were the said results from the cancelled 388 polling units which formed the basis of the Supreme Court judgment satisfied by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC?
“Did Hope Uzodinma call witnesses from the affected polling units involving party agents and presiding officers as a matter of legal precedents?
“Are all the votes from the cancelled polling units scored exclusively by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC,?
“What is the legal rational to rely on the evidence of a private and single policeman who presented questionable documents even without INEC authorisation?”
Also speaking, the party’s 2019 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar remarked, “Our great party and G34 fought and brought Democracy to the country.
“Our party governed very well from 1999 to 2015. As true Democrats, we handed over power to the ruling party, hoping that it will deepen democracy but, alas, we have been disappointed.
The presidential candidate, therefore, proposed a committee to review what happened at the last general election and make necessary recommendations.
He said the roles of INEC and security agencies should not be taken for granted for that will be the end of the struggles of the founding fathers of the party.
He added, “It is our duty to reincarnate the struggles they made that brought the democracy that APC is enjoying”.
It was on this premise, that Atiku proposed that the party leaders go to speak to Nigerians on the state of the nation and party.
Also, the Board of Trustees Chairman, BOT, Senator Walid Jubrin said: “The party has not fully recovered from what the judiciary has done to the people of Nigeria not only PDP but to the people of Nigeria.
“Nigeria is getting to an end if we continue with this exercise this way. He said that Nigeria is at ‘war’.
But Prof. ABC Nwosu said the PDP needed to have a programmed opposition.
He added, “The legacy of PDP is not GSM, it is not G34. It is a democracy. We are on the road to unfreedom, heading to tyranny.
