ADEMETO ADELEKAN
THE Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State and the Midwest Progressive Forum, on Tuesday, lauded the victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki at the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.
The tribunal dismissed four petitions against Obaseki’s victory in the September 19, 2020 governorship election for lack of merit.
A statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chris Nehikhare, said the Judgement was a testament to the rule of law, justice and equity.
He said, “It reinforces the belief that our Judiciary has seriously matured and cannot be manipulated to satisfy the whims and caprices of political jobbers.
“It is clear that the APC booby trap of unwarranted, unnecessary, mindless and malicious court cases are collapsing and experiencing the domino effect. We, therefore, use this opportunity to ask those with conscience left within the contraption called APC to use this Holy Week to seek penance and then join Governor Obaseki and PDP in the development of Edo State.”
President, MPF, Adaze Ewanta, said in another statement that the tribunal had, with the judgement, entrenched the rule of law and constitutionalism like previous ruling by other courts.
Ewanta commended the Governor for not allowing what he described as the truck-load of court cases filed by the candidate of the APC, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to distract him from fulfilling his electoral promises to Edo people.
He said, now that the Tribunal had given its verdict on all four petitions sponsored by the opposition, the Governor should now be allowed to focus on delivering the dividends of democracy to Edo people, as he is already doing.
