Ruling party has infiltrated judiciary –PDP

Ruling party has infiltrated judiciary –PDP
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By Our Reporter  on November 8, 2015
FROM TAIWO AMODU, ABUJA
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has again restated its claim of a compromised judiciary few days after it derisively labeled the nation’s judiciary as an appendage of the All Progres­sives Congress (APC)-led federal government, following the Rivers State Election Pe­tition Tribunal, which ruled in favour of the ruling party.
Reacting to the judgment of Taraba state gubernatorial election tribunal which ruled in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Hajia Aisha Jummai Alhassan, National Publicity Secretary of the main opposition party, Olisa Metuh in a statement yesterday, said the judgment “is another evidence of executive interfer­ence in the judiciary.”
Metuh declared that the rea­son advanced by the tribunal for arriving at what he called a “bizarre decision is intriguing and further exposes the contra­dictions and double standards inherent in most tribunal rulings against PDP interests recently.”
Metuh further claimed that the Taraba State tribunal judg­ment against the candidate of the erstwhile ruling party has again demonstrated “the orga­nized plan by the APC-led fed­eral government to deploy all unorthodox means to decimate the opposition.
“It is rather curious and a great conflict of irony that the Taraba tribunal sitting in Abuja on security grounds faulted the conduct of PDP primaries shift­ed to the same Abuja on security reasons,” the party stressed.
The PDP said if the tribunal was faulting the party primaries as basis for its decision, it then means that no APC gubernato­rial candidate could stand the test, as their party never had acceptable primaries in any of their states.
“The PDP wants democracy watchers globally to recall that it had earlier alerted the nation and the international com­munity of the grand design by the APC to use the judiciary to wrest some PDP states, particu­larly Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Taraba states.
“Evidence that Taraba rul­ing was a product of presidency manipulation can be deduced from the fact that few hours before the judgment was deliv­ered, the APC had arrogantly announced their victory on so­cial media.”
PDP said it was totally con­founded by the brazen show of power by the executive and warned that the development clearly portends grave danger to our democracy and indeed national cohesion and develop­ment.
But it pleaded with its party faithful “across the country, especially in Taraba State to remain undaunted as the appel­late courts will restore its well-deserved victory.”