Says APC pushing Nigerians to the wall
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has announced its rejection of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court, PEPC, which affirmed the declaration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll.
Rising from the 75th meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, former Senate President and the Acting Chairman of the BoT, Senator Adolphus Wabara, said the judgment was fraught with fundamental errors.
Senator Wabara who read a communique after the meeting on Thursday, accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to foist one-party system on Nigeria.
He, however, vowed that the PDP would resist such plot.
The communique read in part: “The BoT restates its rejection of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in upholding the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the February 25, 2023 Presidential election, in spite of the evidence clearly pointing to the contrary.
“The BoT is also monitoring and studying the outcome of cases in various election courts with regards to their level of adherence and respect to the Rule of Law and evidence before such court.
“The BoT commended the PDP Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, for following due process of the law in his quest to retrieve the Presidential Mandate freely given to him at the February 25, 2023 Presidential election.”
“The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), at its 75th meeting thoroughly reviewed the State of affairs of the nation and the Party and resolved as follows:
“The BoT is resolved to take urgent steps to resist the current manifest desperation by the APC to turn Nigeria into a One-Party State.”
The former Senate President, however, expressed the confidence of the PDP BoT in the capacity and courage of the Supreme Court to “ultimately and decisively right the wrongs and correct the manifest errors contained in the Judgment of the PEPC in the interest of the unity, stability and corporate existence of our Country.”
Wabara expressed deep worry over “the excruciating hardship, worsening insecurity and general sense of apprehension and despondency across the country occasioned by the hasty implementation of ill-planned policies of the overtly insensitive APC administration.”
Similarly, he expressed worry over the continued depreciation of the Naira value following the ill-implemented policies of the APC with attendant devastating negative effect on the economy.
Decrying the worsening economic situation in the country, the PDP BoT said that the ruling “APC is pushing Nigerians to the wall.”
“The BoT laments that the APC is pushing Nigerians to the wall and worry that the level of poverty and anger in the polity over the suppressive rule of the APC is capable of snowballing into a serious crisis if not urgently addressed.
“The BoT observed that nation is currently in a precarious situation under the APC and Nigerians look unto the PDP for solution and direction at this time.
