The Peoples Democratic Party has expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will deliver justice in the appeal filed by its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25, 2023 presidential election.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said this in a statement on Sunday, October 22, as the Apex Court prepares to hear Atiku’s appeal.
Ologunagba said the PDP was confident that the Supreme Court would be guided by the provisions of the law, the body of evidence, circumstances and facts presented before it.
He said the PDP believed that the February 2023 presidential election was marred by barefaced violation of rules and laws, brazen manipulations and falsifications in perversion of the electoral process.
He also stated these anomalies had put Nigeria’s democracy in a precarious situation and called for justice from the Supreme Court.
He affirmed that Nigerians and indeed the whole world were looking forward to the Supreme Court for justice in the hope that the Court would apply the laws, including the express provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022 and the Independent National Electoral Commission Guidelines and Regulations in delivering substantial justice in the matter.
The statement read, “As the Supreme Court commences hearing of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election Appeal, the Peoples Democratic Party is confident that guided by the provisions of the law, the body of evidence, circumstances and facts presented before it, the Apex Court will deliver justice in the matter.
“The PDP believes that the issues of the February 2023 Presidential election; the barefaced violation of rules and the laws, the brazen manipulations and falsifications in perversion of our electoral process have put our democracy in a precarious situation.
“Nigerians and indeed the whole world look forward to the Supreme Court for justice in the hope that the Court will apply the laws, including the express provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022 and the Independent National Electoral Commission Guidelines and Regulations in delivering substantial justice in the matter.
“The earnest expectation of Nigerians and lovers of democracy across the world is that the Supreme Court will use this case to firmly validate the maxim that the Judiciary is the last hope of the common man.
“Nigerians are therefore optimistic in hoping that the Supreme Court will dispense substantial Justice according to law and fact in the Appeal.”
