Assault On Justice Odili: Part Of APC’s Plot To Hijack 2023 Elections – PDP Says
BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the attack on Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court as horrendous, rascally, irresponsible and completely unjustified.
The Party specifically said that the assault on Justice Odili is clearly a renewed plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack the 2023 election as it did in 2019.
It therefore warmed that the unjustified attack on Odili should not be allowed to be swept under the carpet on the guise of misleading whistleblower operation.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan said that this is more so as the paw prints of the APC are visible in the incident, in its desperation to cow the judiciary and subvert the cause of justice ahead of the 2023 elections.
According to the PDP; “It is clear that the attack on Justice Odili is part of a renewed script by the APC. Nigerians will recall how, ahead of the 2019 election, former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, was clandestinely yanked off from his hallowed chamber, preparatory to the massive rigging that characterized the 2019 Presidential election.
“Nigerians can equally recall how respected judges were assaulted by the APC administration through obnoxious sting operations in a bid to arm-twist the judiciary and set the stage for the endorsement of a culture of impunity that characterized the 2019 elections,” it said.
The PDP therefore cautioned the APC and its Presidency apparatchik to know that times have changed, stressing that Nigerians are not ready to stomach a repeat of APC’s coordinated assault on the nation’s institutions of democracy, but will firmly resist them with every means available within the ambit of the law.
The party also urged the judiciary to remain firm and not be deterred by the suppressive proclivities of the fizzling APC, that has since been rejected by Nigerians.
The PDP called on Nigerians to stand in defence of democracy by continuing in their demand that the real perpetrators of the attack on Justice Odili be exposed and brought to book.
