Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Peter Obi and all the governors of PDP controlled states were missing at the expanded caucus meeting of the party .
At the expanded meeting, the main opposition party said its decision to go to court to challenge the outcome of the Feburary 23, 2019 presidential election has been finalised.
PDP National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus who stated this while addressing party stakeholders in Abuja Monday said nothing would stop them from going to court.
Secondus said: “Nothing will make us waver in the pursuit of justice. The decision to go to court has been finalised and the process has began. Justice, no matter what anyone will do or what the APC will say, we will seek justice to the highest court of the land.
“The decision to go to court has been finalised and agreed and the process is on. The lawyers have been assembled. We may be in court today (Monday) or tomorrow (Tomorrow). No one can stop us.
“What has happened has never happened in the history of this country. They are celebrating criminality, they are celebrating evil. Our leaders are not talking and if you don’t speak against evil, it will consume everybody,” he said.
Secondus expressed fear that in 2023, there might be election because of alleged military intervention in the electoral process.
According to him; “INEC and its adhoc staff are intimidated and everyone is quiet. We will nosedive and go deeper and deeper into the situations we find ourselves. Nobody is saying anything. In Lagos a section of it was not allowed to vote.
“The son in-law to our candidate Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi and his personal Lawyer Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie have been detained without justification. This is full blown dictatorship. We ask for the release of Atiku’s lawyer and his son in-law because they are political detainees.
Secondus accused the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) of becoming an agent of suppression of the masses.
He said: “This country is so sentimental, I can tell you emotions and sentiments will not bring food on your table, it will not turn the economy around, rather we will nosedive and go deeper and deeper in the situation we find ourselves.
“The leaders of the country are keeping quiet, the peace committee is keeping quiet, everyone here is keeping quiet, what you have now is a full blown dictatorship, that is what we are getting.”
He urged Nigerians to be steadfast and to resist every move to manipulate their will.
In attendance at the meeting are: The party’s candidate in the just concluded presidential election and former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, Senator Dino Melaye, Senator Philip Aduda, former deputy Senate president, Ibrahim Mantu, PDP BOT chairman, Wali Jibril, former governor of Kogi state, Idris Wada and other members of the PDP national working committee.
