The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described Saturday’s judgement of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as so far theclearest indication that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has started harvesting what it sowed in its years of impunity and recklessness.

It then insisted that the party should blame itself for whatever tragedy which has now befallen it and stop attributing the judgement to a supposed manipulation from the Presidency.

The benefiting party, in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stressed that the PDP has always been a party of anything goes, hence it is a matter of time for the party to come to grief, first by tumbling from the pinnacle of power and now by losing, incrementally, whatever remains of its crumbled empire.

”President Muhammadu Buhari as well as his party, the APC, are strong believers in the rule of law, as against the rule of impunity, hence will never manipulate the judiciary for whatever reason.

”The PDP is clearly aware of this, but has chosen to blame everyone but itself for the fate that has befallen it. The PDP should have known that it will pay for its years of impunity and recklessness. For this party, the chicken has now come home to roost,” APC said.

The party continued that if the PDP is not blaming the judiciary – its favourite whipping boy, it is blaming the APC, the Presidency or even Nigerians for its plight, warning it to stop shifting responsibility.

The statement reads, ”PDP should leave the judiciary, the Presidency and the APC alone and accept responsibility for its actions. From the judgement of the Tribunal, it is clear that the impunity of the PDP cost it the election. Not only did the party breach Section 78 (b) (1) (2) of the Electoral Act concerning the organisation of party primaries, it was not even deemed to have participated in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Taraba State in the eyes of the law.
”Apart from not complying with the Electoral Act, the election of the PDP candidate, Mr. Darius Ishaku, in the purported primaries in Abuja, was done after the stipulated time for party primaries had elapsed, according to theTribunal. It is thus clear that the election result in Taraba was not annulled for anyother reason but the impunity and recklessness that permeated the life and times of the cadaverous PDP.

”It is noteworthy that this is not the first time the court is ruling against PDP’s impunity of violating its own constitutional provisions and the Electoral Act with regards to ensuring internal democracy in the conduct of primary elections.

”The first landmark judgment came from the Supreme Court when it ruled against PDP’s impunity in 2007 and ordered that Rotimi Amaechi be installed as Governor of Rivers instead of Celestine Omehia who was illegally imposed. Secondly, the Supreme Court had also ruled against PDP in the case of Ifeanyi Ararume when the party took his mandate as validly elected Governorship candidate and handed it over to another aspirant.

”It is instructive to note that these judgments took place while the PDP was in control of the Presidency. The opposition parties then never questioned the integrity of the judiciary by making wild and weighty allegations as the PDP is doing now,” it stated.

Warning that the PDP should blame itself for its gross impunity with regards to the conduct of primary elections forTaraba State, the governing party asked,“if all political parties, including the APC which was then in opposition, could hold their primaries in the state, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution.

source:dailypost.ng/2015/11/08/stop-shifting-responsibility-taraba-ruling-was-outcome-of-your-impunity-apc-mocks-pdp/

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Gbam teach them with broom.

People have died as a result of this election tribunal judgment, while APC are busy ranting nonsense about the the judgment.

I pity the poor honestly, I believe the daughter or son of Aisha were not effected,neither is the elected governor's son.

The people sent and elected to protect us, are the one killing us!!!