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‘APC NWC Didn’t Ratify Withdrawal From Rivers Guber Election Tribunal’

by Anayo Onukwugha
2 years ago
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has said the alleged withdrawal of the party’s national leadership from the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, was not discussed or ratified by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

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The APC, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday by its publicity secretary, Darlington Nwauju, said neither the state chapter of the party, nor the candidates consulted before the party’s national leadership took the decision.

The statement reads: “We wish to also clarify that at no time did the National Working Committee (NWC) of our party under H.E Abdullahi Adamu meet to discuss/ratify the withdrawal of our petitions from the Election Petitions Tribunal, as neither the State Chapter nor our candidate(s) was(were) ever consulted on this vexatious topic.”

The party rejected the decisions of the tribunal, which dismissed the petitions of its governorship candidate, Pastor Tonye Cole, and all her Senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly candidates.

It further reads: “We consider the reason for arriving at the decision to dismiss the petition of our Governorship candidate, as hypothetical and inconsistent with the position of the Supreme Court which had on the 14th of November 2003 in the case of Buhari & 2 Others Vs Obasanjo & 2 Others (Suit No. SC/194/2003 (Buhari Vs Obasanjo), held that a Candidate in an election cannot be one and the same person with the political party that sponsored him and that the law gives them independent and distinct personality and rights.

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“And that they can file election petition together in their individual capacities; the law does not make them one and the same for the purposes of the petition. This is even made clearer by the construction of Section 133 subsection 1 of the amended Electoral Act (2022) where the Act unambiguously mentions those qualified to institute/file an election petition.

“We make haste to say that the three-man panel headed by Justice Cletus Emifonye allowed itself to be ambushed by purely political innuendos rather than speaking to the law which is abundantly clear as enumerated in the paragraph above.

 

“This judgement of the Tribunal delivered on Monday 2nd October 2023 amounts to a mockery of the judiciary as a lower court disdainly trashed the position of the highest Court in the land as it is common knowledge that whatever the position of the Supreme Court is on a matter, becomes law.

 

“The 2nd of October ruling confirmed the fears of Rivers APC about getting justice in the face of iron cast evidences presented by our team of lawyers at the Tribunal which includes the fact that the PDP Governorship candidate was as at the time he became candidate of his political party, still a serving Accountant General of Rivers State.

 

“It goes without saying that the preponderance of arguments and evidences our legal team marshalled out in the other petitions involving our National Assembly and House of Assembly candidates were equally dismissed by brother judges who presided over the other Tribunals hearing our cases.

 

“We roundly condemn the series of “copy and paste” rulings aimed at weakening the base of our party in Rivers State and call on the judiciary in the country not to jeopardize the democratic process by delivering rulings that have no foundation in law.

 

“Not challenging and dismantling these hypothetical rulings against our candidates amounts to disservice to the memories of hundreds of members lost to the orgy of violence that has trailed political activities in Rivers State,” the statement added.


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