The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun state has described last Friday’s Osun Sate governorship election tribunal judgement that sacked its candidate Ademola Adeleke as a waybill that was sent to the panel by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This is as the tribunal also came under fire by the party following its alleged taunting of Adeleke with his “Buga dance” as the judge was reading was his judgement
Explaining the party’s rejection of both the judgement and during a press briefing at the weekend in Oshogbo, the PDP State Caretaker Chairman, Dr Adekunle Akindele said the judge abandoned legal arguments and submissions to dwell on the trivial as foundation for his pronouncement.
Akindele, who alleged bias and personal hatred for the State Governor by the Tribunal Chairman, accused the Benue born judge of serving as the mouthpiece of the petitioners during the hearing and of personal attacks on the Governor in the ruling, citing the ridiculous reference to buga dance in the judgement.
“Even if the judgement was waybilled to him as we suspected by his petitioner collaborators, he should have disguised and exercised some restraints by expunging the foul languages obviously written for him in local parlance of Buga lyrics to disrespect an elected governor. He shouldn’t have gone so low, low, low!
“This is more so, when he’s expected not to be too carried away or in the least, to be aware that his warped position was a mere starting point in the legal tussle in this context as provided in our extant laws.
“For us as a party, we understand the desperation of those behind the jankara judgement. We understand the trap they tried to set against the BVAS innovation in our electoral system. We understand the desperation goes beyond the Osun election or Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke.
“The evil plot is ultimately against the coming general election where in their usual fraudulent habit, millions of voter cards have either been cloned, registered with ghost names and are being made ready to be deployed especially for the presidential election, in which they could smell their total rejection far ahead of time.
“In this wise and in their fraudulent anticipation, the use of BVAS machine must be discredited and rendered impotent ahead of their planned invasion of the electoral field with their fraudulent antics. However ladies and gentlemen, this is a battle they cannot win!
“The experience in Osun calls for eternal vigilance of Nigerians. Nigerians from far and near must be vigilant because the poll robbers are not resting and are not even hiding it. They are on the streets boasting already with their trade to circumvent the process against popular choice of Nigerians. This we must all fight or the nation is doomed in their hands.
“Nigerians must be ready just as we are ready for them in Osun State. They will not win this time. There should be an end to exploits of minority crooks in our land,” he said.
