Zamfara: PDP Asks Supreme Court Justices Not To Be Intimidated By Sagay

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged the country’s Supreme Court jurists not to be cowed by the criticism of Prof. Itse Sagay on their decision on the ineligibility of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the recent elections in Zamfara State.

Responding to the criticism against the judgment, the PDP expressed concern that Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, could call for anarchy in raising his objections to the judgment.

The statement issued by the PDP’s national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondinyan said that Sagay’s statement “further exposes the desperation of the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress  APC, to cow, blackmail, intimidate and attempt to annex the judiciary, particularly, the Supreme Court, ahead of the determination of PDP’s Presidential election petition, now before the Court of Appeal.”

“By declaring the upholding of justice by the Supreme Court as a ‘national tragedy’ and ‘unimaginable injustice,’ and suggesting that, ‘we (probably, his party members) should not allow’ the judgment as delivered, Prof. Sagay is calling for anarchy and rebelliousness against our constitutional democratic order and rule of law.

“Our party believes that such intentional attack on the integrity of the Supreme Court can only emanate from feverish apprehensions by the Presidency and the APC that they might not have their way in the Presidential election petition, hence this resort to blackmail.

“As a law-abiding party, the PDP holds the integrity of the justices as well as the institution of the judiciary very high and do not support this attempt by agents of the APC to clip and sequester the judiciary for their partisan interests.

“The PDP insists that there is no way Prof. Sagay, a professor of Law, can justify his call for the rejection of the Supreme Court judgment on Zamfara and Rivers states, as the judgments are in  protection of rule of law, democratic ethos as well as the wishes and aspirations of the people over the attempt by the APC to take control of their states through manipulations and awarding of fictitious votes to their candidates.

“The PDP therefore calls on the Supreme Court justices to note the machinations of the APC and continue to be firm in upholding justice as has been demonstrated in the judgments on Rivers and Zamfara states elections, which serve as lessons to political parties to adhere strictly to rules of internal democracy in our electoral processes.”

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