Benue PDP Heads To Tribunal Over Gov’ship, Assembly Elections

The state working committee of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), Benue State chapter has rejected the outcome of the March 18th, 2023 governorship and states house of assembly elections saying the party will challenge it at the Benue State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi.

The acting chairman of the party, Dr. Isaac Mffo who disclosed in a press conference said,  “From the reports received and studied by the legal department of our party, we have arrived at the conclusion that the conduct of the elections fell far below the accepted minimum standards as obtained under our current democratic dispensation.

“It is, therefore, the decision of the Benue State chapter of PDP that the outcome of the March 18th, 2023 elections be challenged at the Benue State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi.

“ We thank the party officials and our distinguished stakeholders from across the state for their struggles under the harsh conditions which were deliberately created by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), from Abuja to scuttle the conduct of free and fair elections.

“As a party, we had done our homework diligently in the build-up to the elections having campaigned thoroughly in all parts of the state in the course of which we touched base with the electorate.

“It is our belief that we owe democracy in our country Nigeria a duty to help deepen it by taking such an action to reverse the hijacking of the popular mandate of the people as done by APC during the last elections.

“It is our faith that the mandate of the Benue electorate will be restored to our great party as was rightfully given by the people on March 18th, 2023”

Mffo commended PDP teeming members across the state who exhibited uncommon courage to go out and vote in the elections despite heavy militarisation of the polls and the use of thugs aided by security agents which he allegedly said were sent to the state by federal authorities from Abuja.