PDP Rejects Tribunal's Verdict, Heads to Supreme Court

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, describing it as "provocative, barefaced subversion of justice and direct assault on the integrity of our nation’s justice system'.

The party's National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said in a statement that the PDP was particularly shocked that the tribunal failed to point to justice despite the "flawless evidence' laid before it.

"The PDP finds as bewildering that a court of law could validate a clear case of perjury and declaration of false information in a sworn affidavit, as firmly established against President Muhammadu Buhari, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.

The party is also rudely shocked that the Court took over the roles of the Respondents’ lawyers who clearly abandoned their pleadings by refusing to call evidence in defense of the petition. The court raked up all manner of excuses to make up for the yawning gaps occasioned by the total absence of any evidence from the Respondents", the statement reads in part.

The party claimed that the court provided rationalizations in favour of President Buhari, "even when all hard facts before it shows that he did not possess the claimed educational certificate and that the Army was not in possession of his WAEC certificate as claimed in the affidavit he deposed to in his Presidential nomination form'.
 While encouraging Nigerians to remain calm and not to lose hope or surrender to despondency or self-help, the PDP expressed confidence that its lawyers would obtain justice at the Supreme Court.