Plateau Muslim Community Wants Appeal Court Judgements Reviewed

Hundreds of youths and women from the Muslim community in Plateau State have joined the protests over Court of Appeal judgements which nullified the election of two senators and four other members of the House of Representatives elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The protest came on the heels of the massive protests which brought together youths from the 17 local government areas of the state, who barricaded major streets like the Old Airport Junction and Mararaba Jama‘a, demanding the review of the judgements by the Appeal Court.

The youths unanimously described the development as an act of injustice and an attempt to rob the state of the mandate the people gave to the PDP.

The secretary of Hausa/Fulani PDP Forum, Abdulkarim Yaro, called on the National Judicial Council, NJC, to review the Appeal Court judgements which were hinged on a pre-election matter that the Appeal Tribunal does not have the jurisdiction to entertain.

According to Yaro, “We got up to express our displeasure with the recent judgements by the Appeal Court because we know we have been robbed of our mandate. In other states, this issue has been taken as a pre-election matter, but why is the case of Plateau different?

“We from the Muslim community, align our voice with all the groups from Plateau who came out to speak against this injustice, we were to protest but the police said no, so as law-abiding citizens, we have no other option than to obey but we demand that the whole nation should look at Plateau. Why are we treated differently?” he lamented.