The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum revealed on Sunday that it will support the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the recently passed judgement at presidential election petitions tribunal.
The governors said the verdict of the tribunal that quashed Atiku and PDP’s petition, apart from laying a faulty foundition for the youths, it also stood justice on its head hence it should be challenged at the Supreme Court.
In a press statement issued from its secretariat in Abuja, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Bayelea State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, said if the judgment is not contested at the apex court, it may constitute a hog in the wheel of the country’s developing democracy.
“After painstakingly and prudently understudying the line after line tenets of the judgement, several holes were picked and countless anomalies identified by us.
“We would be doing a greater disservice and moral injustice to our party, our democracy and Nigerians in general if we turn blind eyes, swallow such bile and applaud that rape of justice.
“The judgement to say the least has further painted our judiciary with darker colours, only this time around with a never-before-seen blemished coat of tar,” it said.
The PDP governors further noted that the apex court should know that its integrity is at stake and in order to avoid it been shredded, it must employ all known technicalities to save the nation’s judiciary from collapse.
According to them, the judgement has made the country a laughing stock amongst the comity of nations and that Nigerians are very hopeful that the wrongs will be corrected.
“Without any iota of trepidation, it is most paramount for us to once more restate and reconfirm our undiluted loyalty, deserving support and maximum commitment to our great party and the Atiku-Obi Presidential Ticket.
“This is our stand, now and in the future. Posterity would judge us harshly if we did otherwise,” it stated.
SOLOMON AYADO, Abuja
