PDP Demands Review of 2019 Presidential Election Verdict

APC Accused of Intimidating Judges

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Supreme Court to review its judgment on the petition it filed in respect of the 2019 presidential election.This is just as the main opposition party accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of intimidating judges of the apex to force a reversal of its verdicts on Bayelsa and Zamfara states.

The PDP, at a press conference addressed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, also tasked the apex court to take a second look at the governorship elections in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Osun states.The text of the press conference was tagged, “Position of the PDP on the desperation of the APC to subjugate, intimidate for the purpose of annexing the Supreme Court over Imo, Bayelsa and Zamfara governorship election judgments.”

According to Ologbondiyan, the party found it “ludicrous, ridiculous and insulting to the sensibilities and respect of the Supreme Court justices for the APC to hurriedly and malevolently head to the Supreme Court to attempt to arm-twist the lord justices to effect a forceful reversal of the valid, flawless and faultless judgments on Bayelsa and Zamfara states’ governorship elections.”

The party demanded a review of the apex court’s judgment on the 2018 governorship election in Osun State in which the Supreme Court upheld the APC’s candidate, Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s victory and dismissed the PDP candidate, Ademola Adeleke’s appeal.

It also demanded a review of the Supreme Court judgment on the 2019 Kaduna State election involving the APC candidate, Nasir El-Rufai, and his PDP opponent, Isah Ashiru.

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The opposition party further called for a review of the Supreme Court judgment on the Kano State governorship election involving the APC candidate, Abdullahi Ganduje, and his PDP counterpart, Abba Yusuf, as well as the apex court’s verdict on the Katsina State governorship poll. In its judgment, the Supreme Court upheld the election of the state governor, Aminu Masari, and dismissed the appeal of his challenger, Senator Yakubu Danmarke, of the PDP.

Ologbondiyan said the PDP was demanding reviews of the judgments because of the alleged plot by the APC “to pressure the justices of the Supreme Court to upturn the judgment of Justice Mary Odili-led panel on the Bayelsa State governorship election.”

The party further disclosed that it would also seek the review of the Supreme Court verdict on the Katsina governorship election petition.“The PDP equally has no choice than to ask the Supreme Court to review the Kano, Kaduna and Katsina election judgments because of manifest violence and substantial non-compliance to our electoral law. The PDP will also ask the Supreme Court to review its judgment on the Osun governorship election in view of manifest, complete and total disregard to our electoral rules in the conduct of the elections,” Ologbondiyan added.