(NIGERIA) Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that, the statement credited to immediate past minister of defence(state) Musiliu Obanikoro that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) already has the upper hand at the Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo was contempt of court.
APC in a statement signed by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy Kunle Oyatomi , said Obanikoro statement is in contempt of court and demanded that he should be sanctioned, stressing that the statement was designed to misinform the public against evidence before the tribunal.
APC says Obanikoro’s conclusion runs against the grain of evidence so far produced at the Tribunal.
It stated that implicit in Obanikoro’s statement is the insidious impunity of the PDP to present a fait accompli in a case that is ongoing in the court.
“The idea is to give a false impression that the PDP has secured a favourable judgment in a case in which evidence is still being produced by witnesses, the PDP’s bluff is characteristic of that party’s arrogance of impunity inspired by its gross misuse of power that has become notorious.”
APC therefore stated that Obanikoro should be sanctioned by the Tribunal for contempt of court for unlawfully pre-empting the Tribunal’s decision on who actually won the August 9 governorship election in Osun State.
It would be recalled that the petitioners, in proving their case before the tribunal called 43 out of the over 500 witnesses they listed to testify in their favour.
-NEWSWATCH TIMES-
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