Ogun APC to PDP: Appealing Abiodun’s victory empty boasts

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the rejection by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of the judgement of the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as the “ranting of incompetent sore losers”.

The Ogun APC also said the decision of the PDP and its gubernatorial candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, to appeal the judgement which affirmed the victory of Governor Dapo Abiodun in the March 18 governorship election was “nothing but their usual empty boasts”

The tribunal had, last Saturday, affirmed the victory of Abiodun of the APC in the governorship election in Ogun State.

The APC, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its Publicity Secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye, said the PDP and its governorship candidate should “cover their faces in shame if they have any modicum of shame left in them”.

The party added: “We noticed that it took the PDP about four days after the meticulous judgment of the Tribunal that lasted 11 hours, twenty five minutes, before the party could make a feeble, wishy-washy, reaction to the sound judgment of the Tribunal

“The delayed reaction of the ramshackle party was obviously as a result of serious shame the verdict put the party and its defeated candidate to; as their lordships, section by section, dissected and exposed the incompetence of the petition and the shaky grounds that the petition were premised on.

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“It is laughable that the PDP agreed that its petition was very faulty in presentation and procedures but complained that the decision of the tribunal was based ‘solely on procedural technicalities’.

“The conduct of elections, announcement of results and procedures for petitions are not and cannot be based on the whims and caprices of anyone, no matter how fraudulently rich, but on the rules and regulations enunciated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and also in the Electoral Act 2022. Any party that can not keep to the laws of the land is not deserving of victory at the tribunal, let alone governing a dynamic state like Ogun state, the gateway of many firsts in Nigeria

“The boast of going to the Appeal Court by the failed party and its fugitive candidate is nothing but their usual empty boasts, which is merely aimed at the continued warehousing of the remnant of their gullible followers. It is a wild goose chase that will fetch them nothing but another unanimous defeat.

“It is an elementary stance in law that ‘you cannot put something on nothing’.

“The loser party should be told that election petition is not like gambling or pool betting, where players rely majorly on luck. Election petition is a serious and highly technical business that is not meant for gamblers.”

The Star