Expending a wide array of vocabulary, the Peoples Democratic Party, dug deep to describe the Taraba Election Petition Tribunal ruling.
The tribunal had nullified the election of Governor Darius Ishaku, thereby giving victory to Senator Aisha Alhassan.
Consequently, the opposition party says the All Progressives Congress has further exhibited proof that it’s in the business of manipulating election tribunals.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, said on Saturday, shortly after the ruling, that President Muhammadu Buhari and his party are hellbent on crippling the opposition.
Metuh says the tribunal cancelled the election based on a crime the APC is also guilty of- unacceptable primary elections.
He said the PDP was confounded by the audacious show of power by the executive- a situation which it says is precarious to the health of Nigeria’s democracy.
“The ruling of the tribunal brought to the fore the organised plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC 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.”
“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 the new media.”
