PDP set to sue INEC, APC this week, petitions UN, others | Nairalaw

*appeals judgement on Kano guber candidate

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its expanded national
caucus meeting on Monday resolved to sue the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC)
and President Muhammadu Buhari this week.

The party said its team of lawyers were set to file the suit
challenging results of the presidential election held on February
23, which saw candidate of the APC, Buhari declared winner by the
INEC.

Addressing a press conference at the end of the meeting which
lasted for over four hours, today in Abuja, the PDP National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “Our party and
candidate have resolved to seek legal redress on the stolen
mandate.”

He said, “If it is true that President Muhammadu Buhari and the
APC won this election, what is scaring them? Why are they afraid of
coming to the tribunal? They should come to the tribunal and
present to the Justices how they won the election.

“For us in the PDP and for our candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
our lawyers have been properly briefed and as well they are set to
file at the tribunal and we will surely do that.

“Nobody can intimidate our party; nobody will intimidate our
candidate not to follow what the law provides for. We will do
everything within the law to make sure that this stolen mandate is
retrieved.”

The party also said it concluded plans to petition the United
Nations (UN) and other global democratic entities over
militarisation of elections by the ruling APC in the country with
specific emphasis on the February 23 presidential poll and next
Saturday’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections.

The PDP spokesman said,” The caucus reviewed the situation in
Kano state particularly as it concerned the court decision and
noted that an appeal had been filed against the judgement and we
will continue to study and follow the situation as they arise.”

On the forthcoming governorship election, the party decried what
it termed the militarisation of the South South and “the rigging
which the APC is plotting ahead of the election.”