Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, senior pastor of Trinity House Church, has provided his opinion on the decision made by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT).
Ighodalo claims that the judges avoided the case’s substance in favour of its technicalities.
However, despite getting away with it, the clergyman promised that things would be made right another day.
Ighodalo reiterated that the presidential candidates for the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, are free to appeal the PEPT decision.
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He pointed out that even if it turns out to be a time and money waste, the petitioners should explore all of their options.
According to him, “When you go to court, there are rules of the court and that’s one of my challenges with jurisprudence and justice. It’s not just what is right but also the approach and the technicality. So, the Judges have given their judgment based on technicality and I think they have largely avoided the substance of the case; it’s convenient for them and the law allows them. So, they have done it and have gotten away with it but it’s okay, there is always another day.
“Every process must be followed and exhausted according to the laws of the land. They may go on appeal and may find a court that is willing to listen to their case and the substance thereon and they may not, but nobody will say that they didn’t exercise their rights according to the laws of this country to the fullest.
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“At the very worst, they will ‘waste’ some money, ‘waste’ some time but they will have reached a process and a nexus and I will encourage them and anybody else seeking justice to seek such to the end. When they get to the Supreme Court, according to the laws of the land, there is no other court to go to. At that point, they know that they have exhausted all their options and posterity will not ask them why they stopped midway and did not follow through to the end. There has been precedence before that cases that were lost at the lower court were overturned at the Supreme Court. So, let them exhaust the full process, if they can afford it, both in money and in time,” he added.
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