The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the verdict of Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on the petition it made against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the Feb. 23 election.
The Tribunal had on Wednesday dismissed the petition by PDP and declared Buhari the actual winner of the Feb. 23 presidential election.
A statement sent to The Legend and signed by PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, the party said it would appeal the judgment at the Supreme Court, because party rejects the judgment in its entirety.
He said that the silence across the nation since the judgment was delivered was an indication that the verdict had not fulfilled the desires and expectations of Nigerians.
He, however, encouraged Nigerians to remain calm and not lose hope or surrender to despondency or self-help.
Ologbondiyan said that the lawyers of the party were confident of obtaining justice at the Supreme Court.
“This is more so as the tribunal itself admitted that there are several errors in the judgment,” he said.
The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, also added his voice: “We have heard the judgment, our legal team will study it and we take it from there.”
On his part, the Vice-Presidential Candidate of PDP in the election, Mr Peter Obi, said the judgement was not about Buhari or Atiku but about the practice of democracy in Nigeria and the rule of law.
“It is about the future of our country. It’s about the suffering masses whose future is being toyed with,” he said.