The All
Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state has advised the PDP to refrain from
its vicious attack on the judiciary, especially on the judges that presided
over the
legislative elections petition tribunal that handled all the petitions
emanating from the last Rivers State legislative rerun elections.
In Vanguard report, the APC State
Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone, made this known when talking to newsmen in
Port Harcourt Wednesday. .
Mr Finebone condemned the unprintable words used
against members of the Rivers legislative election petition tribunal by the PDP
especially through the press release read by Hon. Evans Bipi (who clearly did
not write the release considering the obvious difficulty he had reading it).
The APC publicity Scribe described it as not only unfortunate, but highly
uncalled for, declaring that even though the APC too had lost some of its
petitions before the same tribunal in favour of PDP, the APC never for once
attacked the wisdom of the judges even when it was confident that those
petitions had merit.
“Honestly,
I’m totally surprised by the way the PDP is now condemning the judiciary and the
election petition tribunal over the victory of Chief Andrew Uchendu against
George Sekibo. Why is the PDP celebrating their victories against Rt. Hon.
Otelemaba Amachree, Hon. Maureen Tamuno, Hon. Egop Sampson and Dr. Dressman
Romnson which were delivered by the very same tribunal? I sense an alarming
degree of incoherence here.
“Despite dismissing the petitions by candidates of
the APC, we were not immature about it, we simply refused to attack the
judiciary because we see this as unethical. Judges are men and women of honour
and people of repute. People shouldn’t, for their whimsical and capricious
motives, cast aspersions on these honourable men and women.
“The PDP members
have forgotten so soon that the same judges they’re now abusing, gave judgment in
favour of Senator Ideozu and Hon. Ikunyi Igbani, the Speaker of the Rivers
State House of Assembly, RSHA, which they celebrated like there was no
tomorrow,” Finebone stated.
The APC Publicity Secretary urged all members of
PDP who were aggrieved by the judgment to approach the court of appeal if they
really felt that strongly about it, adding that PDP disturbing the peace was
neither part of the legal process or the answer. “The show of shame the PDP
people have embarked upon over the tribunal judgment that decalred Chief Andrew
Uchendu the duly elected Senator for Rivers East is sad and unhelpful to
everyone including those who are behind it,” Finebone declared.
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