National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus has said vowed “nobody can stop the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, from challenging the outcome of last Saturday’s election in court.
The National Peace Committee led by former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulasalami Abubakar (chairman); John Cardinal Onaiyekan and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah had on Thursday met with the presidential candidate, his deputy, Peter Obi; senate president and director-general of PDP presidential campaign council, Sen. Bukola Saraki; speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and national chairman of PDP Prince Uche Secondus and later met with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osimbajo on Friday.
Secondus while addressing a press conference Friday said the party had enough evidence to approach the court.
He said the party “cannot forgo approaching to court based on the submission of the international observers which have been threatened before the election and that their observation cannot be relied on.”
He said: “When All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders were threatening foreign election monitors with returning to their country on body bags we didn’t know that they had designed the same thing for Nigerians.
“As at the last count over 50 Nigerians have lost their lives last Saturday most of them from the South-south region where a division of the army with their commander were turned on the people on the Election Day.”
On the meeting with the peace committee, Secondus said: “There was no condition. Initially, we were not to talk with them because a decision had been taken to go to court. But because of the personalities involved, we said ok, let’s just talk. It was no condition. There was no request of any condition.
“We will go to court. Nobody will stop us from going to court and bring all of the facts both the international observers and some people have not seen. We will unearth them at the courts and I believe that justice will be done at the courts.”
“We made it clear that unless the injustices are addressed, there is no room for peace. It is only when you address the injustice that you can now sit down for peace.
“So, whatever interpretation that was done by anybody, let it be clear to anybody that we did not give condition, they did not request for it, it was like , look, state what really happened in the election and we told them how the military took over the election and conducted the election in favour of APC.”
