The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has called on the party faithful to remain calm, assuring that the party’s governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, will get favourable judgement at the Supreme Court.
The Secretary of the party in the state, Sunday Solarin, gave the assurance at the weekend during the end-of-the-year party organised by the PDP for party faithful in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Ogun PDP and its governorship candidate, Adebutu are challenging the March 18, 2023 Governorship Election result that brought in Governor Dapo Abiodun for the second term in office.
Both PDP and Adebutu have lost at the Tribunal and Appeal Court to Abiodun and its party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Addressing the scores of PDP at the party, Solarin attributed the losses suffered by the party at the lower courts to technicalities, assuring that the Supreme Court’s judgement would be evidence-based.
He revealed that the party has been able to uncover the facts that the election was rigged in favour of Governor Abiodun and the APC.
“The election has come and it has not gone. We still have the matter pending at the Supreme Court. As you can see our people are quite hopeful because they know they worked hard and they are able to understand the level of acceptability that the party had received from the electorate.
“Our party actually won the election and that is why we are still in court and we believe quite well that the Supreme Court will set the record straight because it is the court of policies.
“There are a lot of policy errors that we think should have given us favourable judgement if they had been adhered to at the lower courts. So, we know that by the time we get to the Supreme Court, we will get the victory swinging in our favour. We are excited and if we are not hopeful we won’t be here.
“We are excited because we knew that we won the election and we have been able to uncover how the election was rigged and that had been tabled before the competent court of law. And we believe in January, the Supreme Court judgement will be favourable,” the Ogun PDP scribe stated.
Solarin dismissed the notion that the party was jittery ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, stressing that the party has a good case before the apex court and the party victory is assured.
He said: “We are not jittery in any matter because we have a good case, it was just that the judges are the lower courts have been dwelling more on technicalities and we know that some of the technical excuses they are giving will not handcuff the justices at the Supreme Court”.
On the current state of the nation, Solarin said only PDP can give Nigerians the joy they deserve.
“People are anticipating a government that will bring joy, happiness to households and they know that PDP has the capacity to do that, we have the track records and we are going to do it.
“You will see the day the Supreme Court will declare Adebutu as winner of the election , you will see the excitement on the streets of Ogun State. We are hoping and we are going to do it better because we know how to touch people’s lives,” he submitted. (Sun)