Zamfara: Supreme Court judgment undemocratic — Oshiomhole
This came as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, presented the Certificate of Return, CoR, to the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mohammed Mattawale, as governor-elect of Zamfara State.
Oshiomhole while fielding questions from journalists at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja after a meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party described the judgment as undemocratic.
“How can you ask me how I feel when the people of
Zamfara voted for us in the manner they did and the courts said those votes
were wasted?”, he fired back at journalists when asked to react to the
judgment. Meanwhile at the time those votes were cast, the high court had ruled
that our candidate was validly nominated.
“There is something I have learnt from Lord
Denning, a famous British Supreme Court Justice, that the law has to be
interpreted taking into account the intention of the lawmakers and try to
deliver justice in its purest form.
There is no justice when on technicality you impose on people candidates
they didn’t elect.
“If the court thought that we were wrong, the
justice would have demanded a repeat. There is nothing democratic when you
impose a stranger to govern the people. But we understand that after the
Supreme Court you can only go to the court of God. To that extent we must obey
the Supreme Court but what we got in Zamfara is a judgment that didn’t
translate to justice,” he said.
Meanwhile, INEC, through its national
commissioner Amina Zakari,
yesterday at the commissioner headquarters presented the CoR
to the candidate of PDP Mohammed Mattawale, as governor-elect of Zamfara State.
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