APC Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling On Rivers

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Friday that
it never expected the Supreme Court ruling which barred it from
fielding candidates in Rivers State.

APC National Publicity Secretary Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu who
fielded questions from journalists said the party’s legal team were
looking at the judgement.

Issa-Onilu said, “Our legal department is looking into the
judgement of the Supreme Court. It is not the kind of judgement we
looked forward to base on the facts that we are aware of.

The only option before us now is to review this judgement and
see what other means that is legal. We think we deserve to field
candidates in Rivers state. We know we did the right thing. We had
our primaries even though there are issues around it.

“I don’t know why it appears the APC is the only party that is
being subjected to this kind of scrutiny from the electoral
body.

It is the same APC that PDP has continued to raise flags as
being the party that wants to rig election and is supposed to be
working in cahoots with INEC. If this is the way to work in cahoots
with INEC, we need to ask further questions. We know what we did in
Rivers compared to what PDP did in many of the thirty-six
states.

“PDP shouldn’t field candidates in many states if the same
parameters applied by the electoral body are applied to the
PDP.

Our legal department will review the outcome of this as
unpalatable as it is and we will be able to say categorically the
next step we might be taking and come out with it in due
course.”

The spokesman, who spoke on a wide range of issues, expressed
readiness of the party to win the coming elections.

He particularly reacted to the Party’s affirmation of Senator
Ayogu Eze as Enugu State Governorship Candidate, Imo APC suspension
of State Governor, comments by Governor Nasir Elrufai on foreign
interference In our elections, the court ruling on Niger East
Senatorial Candidate, the recnt police redeployments and the
preparedness for elections.