The Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has accused Ministers of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi and his Justice counterpart, Abubakar Malami of plot to influence Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Mohammed to cause a constitutional crisis in Rivers state.
This is as the party said it has been informed of how the All Progressives Congress, APC stalwarts are bent on prevailing on Justice Mohammed, to reverse the February 12, 2019 final judgment of the Supreme Court, which upheld the verdict of the trial court that lawfully excluded the APC from participating in the National Assembly, Governorship and State Assembly Elections in Rivers State, having nullified the party’s flawed primaries in the state.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan said the decision to bar the APC from participating in the 2019 elections in the state was one taken by a court of competent jurisdiction.
He said: “The leader of the APC in the state; Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has engaged in fresh conspiracies to subvert the will of the people as expressed at the polls.
“The PDP has information of how Rotimi Amaechi has been going around in Rivers State, giving assurances that he has the ears of the Supreme Court under the leadership of Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed, and that the Supreme Court will reverse its final judgment on APC Primaries and create the way for fresh elections in Rivers State, in which the APC will be allowed to participate.
“Rotimi Amaechi goes about boasting that the apex court in the land, the Supreme Court, will reverse itself and declare for fresh conduct of all the elections in Rivers State.
“Nigerians can recall that in nullifying the APC primaries and barring it from fielding any candidates in Rivers State for the 2019 general elections, the High Court held, and rightly too, that APCs’ primaries in the state were invalid and cannot be considered.
“Acting upon the final judgment of the Supreme Court, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on February 23, 2019 held the Presidential/National Assembly elections and on March 9, 2019 conducted the governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers state, in which the APC, having been lawfully excluded, did not participate.
“Nigerians can also recall how the APC, having been frustrated by its lawful exclusion, used compromised security agents to violently disrupt the smooth conduct of elections in Rivers State.
“In the course of the elections, the APC however adopted the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, bankrolled his election and made compromised security agents and thugs available to him, with the view to using them to muscle votes.
“In spite of these conspiracies by the APC, the will of the people of Rivers state prevailed, as they braved the odds, resisted all machinations and voted overwhelmingly for the PDP and all its candidates.”
Credit: Vanguard
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