The All Progressives Congress (APC) has spoken up on the pending application filed by the ruling party for the Supreme Court to review its judgment on the Zamfara State governorship election matter.
APC National Publicity Secretary Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, in a statement issued yesterday, said PDP’s declaration that the Supreme Court had no option than to dismiss the pending application (by the APC) to review its judgment on the Zamfara State governorship election matter amounted to yet another effort by the opposition party to intimidate the apex court.
Issa-Onilu said it was “criminal and irresponsible” for a party that had once ran the country for an uninterrupted period of 16 years and voted out of power for “maladministration” to seek to bring the country down by taking actions or making statements targeted at undermining a critical state institution like the judiciary. He called on the Supreme Court to focus on dispensing justice in the case of Zamfara State as well as other matters before it and ignore what it called the “irresponsible ranting of the PDP”.
“Unfortunately, they have failed woefully on the Zamfara matter, even as we reiterate that PDP is not a party to our intra-party matter before the Supreme Court. “There is a world of difference between the Supreme Court review sought on the Zamfara matter and the matters that the Supreme Court dismissed regarding Imo and Bayelsa states.
“Unlike what happened in Bayelsa and Imo, in Zamfara, the Supreme Court is not being requested to review its decision, far from it. The unique thing about Zamfara’s case at the Supreme Court is that the APC is not attacking the judgement of their lordships but only praying that they vary their consequential order for the purpose of justice.
“That is where the PDP, who not being a party in the matter, is scared as it found itself to have immensely benefitted from our intra-party squabbles, by reaping where they never sowed. “The Supreme Court had earlier affirmed that it has the powers to review its own decisions and that it is not averse to correcting error when that is noticed or when it is brought to its attention,” Issa-Onilu said.