Some Peopes Democratic Party, PDP members of the National Assembly from Plateau State sacked by the Court of Appeal have been speaking on their next line of action after losing their seats in the House of Representatives.
Isaac Kwallu who had to vacate the Shendam-Qua’an-Pan-Mikang Federal Constituency seat believes it is not too late to remedy the situation as he calls on the National Judicial Council, NJC to urgently intervene and right the wrongs of the Court of Appeal by reviewing the judgements.
Kwallu told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN in Abuja, the nation’s capital that the annulment of his election victory is a “monumental travesty of justice,” which is against the will of God and his constituents.
He insists that as far as he concerned and in the eyes of his constituents, the mandate still belongs to me. The 49-year old Kwallu who was Chairman of Qua’an-Pan Local Government Area on platform of All Progressives Congress, APC before defecting to PDP to run for a seat in the House of Representatives after he was illegally removed from office however vows to reclaim his seat from the new lawmaker in 2027 election.
In his words, “If I am alive in 2027 and I contest the election, I can assure you that I’ll retrieve my stolen ‘Divine Mandate’ because I’ll win again and again if the election were to be conducted 1,000 times! “I won the February election with a landslide by beating the APC incumbent with a total vote difference of over 31,000. “I defeated him in all the three local governments that make up the constituency; I also floored him in 31 out of the 32 federal wards, including his own ward. “I also defeated him at the election petition tribunal but, strangely, the Court of Appeal, controversially and suspiciously, subverted the will of the people on spurious ground.
“That the PDP doesn’t have a legitimate structure in Plateau to nominate candidates for elections, which is absolutely not true,”he said. He said that the Court of Appeal election petition panel, like the election petition tribunal, which earlier declined jurisdiction in pre-election issues and affirmed his victory, has no jurisdiction or any business to entertain such.
This he said was because the Supreme Court had since ruled that only the High Court has jurisdiction to entertain pre-election matters warning that “Anarchy also looms large across the entire Plateau, as people are still protesting in the state and even in Abuja, which is unprecedented.
“Look, you cannot convince the electorate that natural justice is done in a glaring case, where someone who lost election in all the three local governments in the entire constituency, losing in 31 out of 32 wards, is now foisted on them by judicial fiat.
“It is very sad, shocking, painful and unfortunate that, in spite of the well established jurisprudence on pre-election matters, the Appeal Court decided to side-track, neglect, and jettison over thirty established judicial precedents, which have already been clearly and explicitly settled by the Supreme Court,” he said.
He said that he aligned himself with the public insinuations of alleged judicial compromise against PDP in the controversial judgements.
