The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has described as injustice, the Supreme Court judgment, which upturned the party’s electoral victory in Zamfara State on grounds of technicality.
Speaking to news men at the party’s national Secretariat in Abuja today, Monday, in his reaction to the development after the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting, the national chairman said: “So, there is no justice when on grounds of technicalities, you impose on the people of Zamfara, not just a man or a woman, but a whole party candidates from Governor to Senate and others that they didn’t elect.”
Oshiomhole said that the right thing the court should have done was to call for a repeat of the elections if the party fell short of electoral laws, even as he said that since it is impossible to appeal the Supreme Court ruling, the party will take its case to God.
“If the court thought we were wrong, 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 imposing strangers to govern a people, but we understand that after the Supreme Court, we can only take our case to the Court of God, to that extent we must obey the Court.”
He stressed that what the APC got in Zamfara State was a judgment that didn’t translate to justice, considering the way the people of the state voted for the party and its candidates.
The five-member panel of the Supreme Court justices, in a unanimous judgment on May 25, declared that the APC in Zamfara had no candidates in the 2019 general elections, saying that this was because the party failed to conduct recognized primaries in accordance with party rules.
In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Galinji, the apex court held that all votes cast for the APC during the general elections in Zamfara were “wasted votes”.
He declared that all political parties with the second highest votes in the elections and with the required spread, were elected to various elective positions in the state.
Source: NAN.
