PDP’s Convention of impunity

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has once again added a new twist to its penchant for lawlessness, stereotype of greed and an overweening desire to capture power at all costs. A new chapter of judicial skullduggery has been unfolded with a high court judge contradicting, reversing and assuming appellate status over earlier pronouncement of a […]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has once again added a new twist to its penchant for lawlessness, stereotype of greed and an overweening desire to capture power at all costs.
A new chapter of judicial skullduggery has been unfolded with a high court judge contradicting, reversing and assuming appellate status over earlier pronouncement of a court of coordinate jurisdiction.
This is novel in the Nigerian political diary of disingenuous escapades leaving reflective citizens in utter bewilderment.
PDP is bent on conducting a convention that is a nullity in the face of legal scrutiny because when the chips are down the Port Harcourt court cannot deliver the party from the judicial contempt awaiting it at the court of appeal thereby rendering the whole convention nugatory.
Whereas the party willfully selected Ali Modu Sheriff as its chairman against all interdictions of common sense, a misadventure purportedly executed by Governor Ayo Fayose and Governor Segun Mimiko in a desperate Vice Presidential bid, this does not remove Sheriff’s fundamental right to seek judicial redress.
As the convention preliminaries have taken off with screening of candidates in total defilement of the laws of the land, Nigerians must be left askance at the ability of PDP to play a credible opposition politics not to talk of taking power in 2019 as its leading lights are boasting without any introspection.
The Port Harcourt judge must be quickly sanctioned by NJC before this aberration fosters an irreversible judicial anarchy and dilute the nation’s jurisprudential precedence.
Bukola Ajisola, Victoria Island, Lagos, [email protected]