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| Chief SG Odey, member of the PDP legal team |
Plateau state election Petitions: We
remain resolute- PDP Lawyers
BY Lovins Yakubu
May 01, 2019
The PDP
Legal Team has given assurances that the Governorship Election Petition
alongside the Legislative Houses petitions are firmly rooted in the Tribunal,
and are not subject to ongoing rumbling within the Party but shielded from
partisanship and factionalization.
A statement
by a member of the legal team, Chief SG Odey stated that the Lawyers remain
focused and committed to professionalism so as to achieve result-oriented
outcomes for the benefit of all party men, women and the youths. The Lawyer said that the team will surely succeed,
by God's grace, to retrieve Gen. JT Useni's stolen mandate and return PDP to
Government House, Little Rayfield and also advocated for speedy reconciliation in the party to
ensure unity of purpose stressing that the legal team would maintain absolute
neutrality
He further
stated that most of the Lawyers in the team were deeply entrenched in the affairs of PDP
such that their commitment and patriotism cannot be denominated in monetary
terms.
According to the statement, all the PDP petitions at the two Election Tribunals are founded on solid grounds
as required by the Electoral Act and the Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria (both as amended).
The statement further read in parts, “Our
assurances of neutrality and commitment to serve and propel our great Party to
assured victory are genuinely founded on, and activated by patriotic zeal. The
agitations and tantrums are not unexpected in a large family that PDP
represents, especially at a time such as this when a few things have gone wrong
resulting in the loss of the election which the Party ought to have won. The
anger, frustration and the attendant pain and despondency arising there from is
therefore, understandable.
“We know how
these politicians play their game, and you can bet that soon, very soon they'll
regroup and reconcile themselves and carry on as if nothing had happened. From
history and experience, they throw 'punches' at each other publicly but return
to the dining table to wine and dine together, they align and realign, and they
keep no permanent enemies.
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| Chief Odey |
“We call upon stakeholders to rise up to the
occasion by bringing all parties concerned to a roundtable for dialogue on the
way forward, and to prevent things from falling apart.
“The lawyers
remain focus, and nothing can distract our attention from the work we're doing
for the Party and its candidates at the various courts and tribunals. No
retreat, no surrender”
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