Even after the recent meeting with the National Peace Committee with the aim of killing the tensed atmosphere after the result of Saturday’s Presidential election, PDP has still come out to confirm that there is no deal with the committee that would stop it from going to court.
Speaking recently, Prince Uche Secondus mentioned that the committee, with General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd)as chairman, did not expect the PDP to change its mind about going to court.
He also said in the first place, there is actually no peace without justice.
The PDP Chairman, who described the recent polls as “body bag elections,” said international observers were even intimidated into keeping mum about the elections in a bid to not make President Buhari angry.
His words, “There was no request of any condition. We made it clear (to the committee) that unless the injustices are addressed, there is no room for peace. It is only when you address the injustice that you can now sit down for peace.
“We will go to court. Nobody will stop us from going to court and bring all of the facts both the international observers and some people have not seen. We will unearth them at the courts and I believe that justice will be done at the courts.
“Because if we continue to suppress injustice and go sentimental, the country will continue to pile on gun powder that will explode one day.
“So much injustice has been done in this country and if we allow it and it continues to pile, nobody knows what will happen,”
“When All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders were threatening foreign election monitors with returning to their country on body bags we didn’t know that they had designed the same thing for Nigerians,”
“As at the last count, over 50 Nigerians have lost their lives last Saturday most of them from the South-South region where a division of the army with their commander was turned on the people on the election day.
“You can see that the nation has been in a sorrow mood for our democracy that was dragged down last Saturday, four years after the world stood up for Nigeria for not only conducting a flawless election but for going ahead in addition to have a seamless transition to an opposition party, but we all are seeing the direct beneficiary of that rare democratic disposition, General Muhammadu Buhari using the military to rob Nigerians of their right to choose leaders of their choice.”
“While the military was suppressing voters in PDP stronghold in the South, different abracadabra was going on in some Northern states particularly in Kano, Yobe, Borno and Zamfara states where numbers refuse to add up. In Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states, a confirmed report shows that there was non-compliance in the use of smart card reader as approved by INEC rules,”
“Some prominent members of the opposition have been put on surveillance and their names listed to be stopped from travelling out of the country.
“You can all see that we have arrived at the place we never bargained for- full-blown dictatorship and this is where I urge you, members of the press, to stand up as you have always done against this emerging despotism in our land before we become a laughing stock in the global democracy family again.”
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