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RIVERS ELECTIONS: S’Court ruling final triumph over manipulative forces in APC —PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the ruling of the Supreme Court on an appeal by the River All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging its exclusion from vying for any position in the state as an end to “inordinate manipulations” by the party to overturn the governorship, national and state assembly elections in the state.

The apex court seven-man panel of Justices led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed, had on Thursday dismissed the remainder of appeals the APC lodged to reverse court judgments that led to the exclusion of its candidates from vying for any elective position in the state.

Responding in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said the judgment “categorically ended the inordinate manipulations by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to overturn the governorship, national and state assembly elections in Rivers state, has finally vindicated the PDP, Governor Nyesom Wike and the people of Rivers state.”

According to the party, the resoluteness of the Supreme Court in upholding justice and resisting “manipulations by APC leaders to revisit the issue of APC flawed primaries in the state, which were lawfully annulled by the lower courts, has brought respite to Nigerians and further restored their confidence in the institution of the judiciary. The spontaneous public jubilation that trailed the concluding judgment attests to this.

“The judgment signifies the final triumph of the will of the people over the manipulative forces in APC, who have been deploying all manner of underhand dealings and violence, in their desperation to forcefully take over the control of the state.”

PDP then charged the APC leaders to note that they have come to the end of the road and that “though evil may thrive for a moment, truth, justice and the will of the people will always prevail.”

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The PDP also expressed confidence that just as the will of the people of Rivers state has been preserved, its “Presidential mandate, which Nigerians freely gave to Atiku Abubakar on February 23, 2019, but brazenly stolen by the APC”, will also be retrieved at the tribunal.

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