Ayade Defection Suit: PDP Heads To Appeal Court Over High Court Judgement

Ayade Defection Suit: PDP Heads To Appeal Court Over High Court Judgement

by Victor Ndubuisi
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The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has announced that it would appeal the Abuja High Court’s decision in favor of Governor Ben Ayade yesterday.

The PDP has indicated that it would take the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

The party stated that going to the Appeal Court would be “a civilized battle and an intellectual investigation of the limitations and immensity of our jurisprudence in an unexplored region,” in a statement posted early Friday morning and signed by its Chairman, Vena Ikem.

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The party stated that they will not rest until justice is served.

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The party had gone to the Abuja High Court over Ayade’s defection to the governing APC with the governorship mandate, claiming it as a provocation by unscrupulous forces who had previously been awarded the party’s mandate by mistake.

“We will review the full verdict with the intention of appealing to the next Court of Law until justice is done obviously.”

“The judgment of yesterday by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja is yet another successful exploration of the dept of legal jurisprudence in uncharted territory such as we have at hand. Let me assure you that this judgment is only a step in the overall picture envisaged by our lawyers when they took steps to explore this legal option which has the potential to take both the Judiciary and indeed our entire democracy to another level entirely.

“We will continue to support our lawyers as they lead us in this battle for the soul of our democracy and good governance of our people.”

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He hailed party stakeholders and supporters for not allowing Ayade to sleep well “with our stolen mandate and will continue to keep them sleepless for the remainder of the tenure which they shamelessly flaunt at us who made it happen.”

According to the statement, Ayade has regretted what they described as an ill-fated adventure to APC, adding that they “will continue to drive the message home that it was the PDP that was elected to govern Cross River People in 2019 because our people are PDP, body and soul, and not APC.”

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He consoled the supporters not to be dampened by temporary setbacks by yesterday’s judgment.

He also urged them to remain focused as the ‘bigger picture’ will only birth after the Supreme Court gives its verdict on all issues related to the matter.

 

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