The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has reacted to the nullification of the election of Udom Emmanuel, the governor of Akwa Ibom state, by the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, December 18.
According to the forum, the judgements were part of a cruel plan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to take control of “oil-producing states” by all means.
The PDP governors alleged that Aminu Tambuwal, the Sokoto state governor, had canvassed that it was a national security risk for the oil-rich states to be controlled by the opposition.
Premium Times reports that Osaro Onaiwu, the coordinator of the forum, made a statement calling on the judiciary to rise above partisan influence and protect the country’s democracy.
“The nullification of the election of His Excellency, Governor Udom Emmanuel by the Court of Appeal on Friday in Abuja should worry all those who truly desire good for this country.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the APC is bent on foisting a one-party state in Nigeria and to do so, it is ready to compromise the judiciary, destroy every fibre of integrity and sanctity of the judicial process through state compromise of the judiciary.
“For 16 years that the PDP governed, it respected the right to opposition and did not balkanise the judiciary as we have witnessed in the past seven months of the APC regime,” the statement read in part.
According to the governors, the nation’s judiciary is “tele-guided by a puppet master in Lagos”. However, they expressed assurance that the state apparatus would soon collapse “because a people’s will to choose their leaders can never be negotiated or mortgaged out of desperation”.
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