Following the suit filed at the Appeal Court by Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike over the nullification of his election victory by the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, last month, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, said, Thursday, it is appealing because ‘it saw no grounds for the Tribunal’s ruling.’
A statement by the State chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah and signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, said the appeal became necessary because the party saw no grounds on which the controversial nullification of the Rivers State governorship election was based, stressing that once any judgement was shrouded in uncertainty, and to test the veracity of such judgement, a superior appellate court became the way out of the quagmire.
“The action of Governor Wike and the PDP to appeal the judgement is therefore in order and the best option by a law abiding party. We insist that the call by the All Progressive Congress (APC) not to appeal the judgement was borne out of fear because they know the tribunal’s judgement lacks the locus standi before the higher appellate courts.
“The Rivers APC sufficiently aware of this development had wished the PDP did not appeal the tribunal ruling, preferring an unchallenged re-run which the PDP has described as self delusion,” the party said.
