Kano: We accepted S/Court ruling, but didn’t agree with it – APC

Felix Morka, the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that the party accepted the verdict of the Supreme Court not because it necessarily agreed with the decision.

Morka stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.

Last Friday the Supreme Court upturned the decisions of the tribunal and appeal court and affirmed Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as the duly elected governor of Kano State.

The court also affirmed Governor Caleb Mutfwang as the duly elected governor of Plateau State.

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When asked whether the APC accepted the decisions by the Supreme Court, Morka said, “Every time a high court upturned the decision of a lower court it means that the high court has interrogated the decision and the rational of the lower court.

“That is the nature of appellate process. The high court is vested with the authority to review the decision of the lower court.

“So any time the high court does not uphold the decision of the lower court there is nothing spectacular. This does not mean to say that the lower courts did something untoward or that would compromise their integrity.

“In my statement reacting to the verdict I said that the final court of the land has spoken. We accepted the verdict not because we necessarily agreed with all the legal arguments made.

“We agreed because that is the highest court of the land. We are under duty to show respect to the decision of the Supreme Court. This is what some people on the political divide are not willing to do.”