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CR Labour Party Issues Statement, Disagrees With CR Elections Petitions Tribunal

Posted on October 14, 2015 By Admin 1 Comment on CR Labour Party Issues Statement, Disagrees With CR Elections Petitions Tribunal

Austin Ibok
Austin Ibok
We as a political party are very familiar with the schemes of desperate politicians who rig elections by various means including violence to ensure that they ‘win’ at all cost.

Indeed these politicians see politics as a do or die affair and employ all methods including active connivance with the electoral umpires to foist themselves upon the people. Sadly, we are all very familiar with the unfortunate situation that is Nigerian elections.

However, while we are familiar with the problems of politicians, nothing could prepare us for the rigging by the Judiciary. Until very recently, we still had a sliver of hope in the courts as the last hope of the common man, which hope has now been dashed most cruelly in the most horrific way that is even stranger than fiction.

Whereas the Constitution clearly spells out the qualifications of persons to be appointed as chairmen and members of election petition panels, the President of the Court of Appeal appointed a person in the person of Justice Awubra who did not meet the requirements, the chairman of the tribunal in Calabar panel 1. Justice Awubra himself, knowing that he was not qualified accepted the appointment and presided over the entire petitions only for the panel to deliver a ruling at the end saying that the entire proceedings are a nullity due to the non-qualification of the chairman! Every single petition in that panel numbering well over 15 has been caught up in this mess.

What we have is akin to a situation whereby you fail even before you start. Surely the rot in the system is not this bad? Or else what kind of country do we live in? What manner of persons are appointed judges? Why can’t people just do their jobs for which huge public funds are being expended on their wages? How can judges in whose bossoms the law resides and who swear to uphold the constitution make such a ‘mistake’? Indeed we do not believe this was an honest mistake, no. We believe that judges have now become the best tools with which failed and unpopular politicians exploit. We are outraged.

Even though we are laymen, we know that a cardinal principle of justice is that where there’s an injury, they must be a remedy. We will not accept this daylight robbery, we refuse to be helpless.

Accordingly, we have instructed our lawyers to explore all available means of redress including appealing the judgments, suing the president of the Court of Appeal and all the members of the panel who wasted valuable time and resources, presiding over a kangaroo tribunal deceiving hapless members of the public.

Austine Ibok
State Chairman

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Comment (1) on “CR Labour Party Issues Statement, Disagrees With CR Elections Petitions Tribunal”

  1. Itam Monday Michael says:
    October 14, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    My Name is Itam Monday Michael, Prince Otu Election in Cross River State is very clare that he won the election in nearly all the polling unit am very surprise that Gesham Bassey won the election I am a full time member of the PDP, let us just do what is right and forget about injustice Prince Otu has won Gesham Bassey

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