Supreme Court Ruling On Zamfara Election, Oshiomhole Says APC 'II Take Case To God

Adams Oshiomhole has condemned the Supreme Court ruling which Upturned the All Progressives Congress (APC) electoral victory in Zamfara on grounds of technicality but said the party has taken its case to God.

The APC chairman, who spoke at the end of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting noted that the court judgment was an injustice to the people of the state.
“There is something I 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.
“So, there is no justice when on grounds of technicalities, you impose on the people of Zamfara, not just a man or a woman, but a whole party candidates from Governor to Senate and others that they didn’t elect.
“If the court thought we were wrong, justice would have demanded that we repeat, but you can not use technicalities because we are in a democracy.
“There is nothing democratic when the court imposing strangers to govern a people, but we understand that after the Supreme Court, we can only take our case to the Court of God, to that extent we must obey the Court,” he said.
He further maintained that what the APC got in Zamfara was a judgment that didn’t translate to justice, considering the way the people of the state voted for the party and its candidates.
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court justices, in a unanimous judgment on May 25, declared that the APC in Zamfara had no candidates in the 2019 general elections and therefore declared all the candidates of the main opposition as winners of the election.
This, it explained was because the party failed to conduct recognised primaries in accordance with party rules.
In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Galinji, the apex court held that all votes cast for the APC during the general elections in Zamfara were “wasted votes”.
On the votes cast for the APC at the elections which the court said were wasted votes, Oshiomhole recalled that at the time the votes were cast, a High Court had ruled that the party’s candidates were validly nominated.
He, however, declined comments when asked whether the party would sanction its members that took it to Court in Zamfara.