Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Supreme Court to review its judgment on the 2019 presidential election.
Addressing journalists Monday in Abuja, the PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the party wants a review of the case of certificate forgery against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ologbondiyan said that the PDP had no option than to seek a review because the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenged the ruling on the Bayelsa State Governorship.
“Consequently, the National Working Committee of the PDP, after comprehensive consultations, states that our party has no choice left, given the manner with which the APC has conducted itself than to ask for a review of the judgment of the Presidential election petition tribunal, where the issue of certificate forgery and or presentation of false information in aid of qualifications was clearly established against the APC and her presidential candidate,” Ologbondiyan said.
APC had asked the Supreme Court to reverse the judgment that annulled the victory of the party’s David Lyon in the 2019 governorship election in the oil-rich state.
In a unanimous judgment read by Justice Ejembi Ekwo, the apex court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Return presented to Lyon on 21 November, 2019.
A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili, disqualified the deputy governorship candidate of the APC, Degi-Eremienyo, deemed to have presented fake certificates.
Lyon got 352,552 votes to defeat the candidate of the PDP, Duoye Diri, who polled 143,172 votes.
Based on the judgment, Diri has since been sworn in as the number one citizen of the state.
However, the APC believes Lyon’s votes ought not to have been cancelled by the apex court.
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