Supreme Court’s APC Dismissal In Zamfara Is Undemocratic – Adams Oshiomhole

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole has disagreed with the judgement of the Supreme Court which dismissed all candidates elected on APC ‘s platform during the last general elections.

This is his latest reaction after Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, presented the Certificate of Return, CoR, to the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mohammed Mattawale, as governor-elect of Zamfara State.

He described the judgment as undemocratic.

His words, “How can you ask me how I feel when the people of Zamfara voted for us in the manner they did and the courts said those votes were wasted?”, he fired back at journalists when asked to react to the judgment. Meanwhile at the time those votes were cast, the high court had ruled that our candidate was validly nominated.

“There is something I have learnt from Lord Denning, a famous British Supreme Court Justice, that the law has to be interpreted taking into account the intention of the lawmakers and try to deliver justice in its purest form. There is no justice when on technicality you impose on people candidates they didn’t elect.

“If the court thought that we were wrong, the justice would have demanded a repeat. There is nothing democratic when you impose a stranger to govern the people. But we understand that after the Supreme Court you can only go to the court of God. To that extent we must obey the Supreme Court but what we got in Zamfara is a judgment that didn’t translate to justice.”