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CNPP criticises insecurity alarm by army, police
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Osita Okechukwu, the national publicity secretary of the conference, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the alarm was unnecessary.
The security organs had said in separate statements that certain persons were attempting to foment trouble and warned that such attempt would be resisted.
CNPP said it was against violence but urged the military and police to focus on “those who have incurable phobia of free, fair and transparent elections’’.
In noted that the judgment on the presidential election was jaundiced and called on the Supreme Court to restore people’s hope in the polity.
The conference also reminded the court that its final judgment on the April presidential election was capable of either stabilising or destroying the country.
“CNPP calls on the Supreme Court to thoroughly review the overwhelming and weighty evidences the Appeal Court Justices of the Presidential Election Tribunal deliberately consigned to the dust bin.
“Reversal of the obnoxious verdict is the surest route to security and growth of democracy,’’ he added.
The group described as “obnoxious” the verdict of the Presidential Election Tribunal, saying it was “perverse and a betrayal of democracy”.
He noted the public outrage to the judgment, pointing out that “it was the greatest threat to democracy.
“For the avoidance of doubt, what the verdict has said is go ahead and rig the election and find means of reaching the judges in order to foreclose the matter,’’ CNPP stated.
“What happened to the two final result sheets signed by Prof. Maurice Iwu and certified by INEC, where in one President Umaru Yar’Adua wasallocated arbitrarily 25.3 million votes and in the other 24.6 million votes?
“What is the position of the law when there isinconsistency?,’’ it asked.
It noted that if the judgment had served the interest of justice and the core values of democracy, itwould not have engendered national insecurity.
“The perverse nature of the judgment is at the root of insecurity, for the major ingredients of insecurity in Nigeria - religion and ethnicity - are totally absent and not in contention.
“We have to avoid the Kenyan debacle and
reinforce hope on one man one vote, for if theobnoxious judgment is allowed to stand, thengoodbye to democracy.
“Are we not ashamed that the junta in Thailandand Pakistan honoured the basic tenet ofdemocracy by allowing the votes of their people tocount,’’ the spokesman said. (NAN)
The security organs had said in separate statements that certain persons were attempting to foment trouble and warned that such attempt would be resisted.
CNPP said it was against violence but urged the military and police to focus on “those who have incurable phobia of free, fair and transparent elections’’.
In noted that the judgment on the presidential election was jaundiced and called on the Supreme Court to restore people’s hope in the polity.
The conference also reminded the court that its final judgment on the April presidential election was capable of either stabilising or destroying the country.
“CNPP calls on the Supreme Court to thoroughly review the overwhelming and weighty evidences the Appeal Court Justices of the Presidential Election Tribunal deliberately consigned to the dust bin.
“Reversal of the obnoxious verdict is the surest route to security and growth of democracy,’’ he added.
The group described as “obnoxious” the verdict of the Presidential Election Tribunal, saying it was “perverse and a betrayal of democracy”.
He noted the public outrage to the judgment, pointing out that “it was the greatest threat to democracy.
“For the avoidance of doubt, what the verdict has said is go ahead and rig the election and find means of reaching the judges in order to foreclose the matter,’’ CNPP stated.
“What happened to the two final result sheets signed by Prof. Maurice Iwu and certified by INEC, where in one President Umaru Yar’Adua wasallocated arbitrarily 25.3 million votes and in the other 24.6 million votes?
“What is the position of the law when there isinconsistency?,’’ it asked.
It noted that if the judgment had served the interest of justice and the core values of democracy, itwould not have engendered national insecurity.
“The perverse nature of the judgment is at the root of insecurity, for the major ingredients of insecurity in Nigeria - religion and ethnicity - are totally absent and not in contention.
“We have to avoid the Kenyan debacle and
reinforce hope on one man one vote, for if theobnoxious judgment is allowed to stand, thengoodbye to democracy.
“Are we not ashamed that the junta in Thailandand Pakistan honoured the basic tenet ofdemocracy by allowing the votes of their people tocount,’’ the spokesman said. (NAN)
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