by The Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang has lauded the judgment of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal for affirming his victory in the March 18 election, pointing out that the judiciary has spoken with one voice.
Delivering its judgement on Friday, the three-member panel, unanimously held that the petitioner failed in its petition for lack of merit.
Governor Mutfwang, while featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, described the APC’s petition challenging his electoral victory as mischievous, a waste of time and energy.
In Mutfwang’s words, “You would recall that before, some of my state and National Assembly members were thrown out supposedly for lack of structure by the PDP.
“I want to assure you that the cases are there for anybody to see and what the petitioners have done is what the tribunal has rightly called in line with precedent that they were nothing but meddlesome interlopers and I’m glad that today the judiciary has spoken with a strong voice.”
Speaking on the judgment sacking some PDP lawmakers in the state due to lack of structure in the party, Governor Mutfwang said that the judges will have to answer as the matter goes for appeal.
According to him, the Supreme Court had laid a precedent that on issues bordering on pre-election matters on the nomination of candidates, another party cannot pick into what happened in an opposing party.
He expressed confidence that the decision of the panel sacking the PDP lawmakers would be overturned by the higher courts as he maintained that the petition is “abuse of court process and rape on precedent.”
