“the Lagos PDP, and indeed, the entire PDP, are suffering
acute Tinubu-phobia, borne out of the fact that Asiwaju Tinubu constitutes the
greatest nightmare for PDP rank and file, given his prosecution of the defeat
of the PDP last year.” Joe Igbokwe
Although a precedent was drawn from how the Code of Conduct
Tribunal, CCT, quashed charges against the former governor of Lagos State,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in 2011, chiefly on the basis that the charges did not
disclose a prima facie case against the accused, the Danladi Umar led-tribunal
unavoidably ruled otherwise in the ‘similar’ case of Senate President Bukola
Saraki, declaring that the tribunal took an erroneous decision in the case of
Tinubu.
Trailing this paradoxical revelation, there have been
emerging calls that the CCT should re-visit the Tinubu’s case as a matter of
rectifying the anomaly and saving the judiciary from allegations of double
standard practice.
Standing tall among those demanding for such readjustment is
the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, who requested through its Lagos branch that
Tinubu should be arraigned for fresh prosecution.
However, the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, has reacted to the call by the PDP, describing it as mere silly
rants of frustrated losers.
A statement obtained by TTB, which was signed by the party’s
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said that “the Lagos PDP, and indeed, the
entire PDP, are suffering acute Tinubu-phobia, borne out of the fact that
Asiwaju Tinubu constitutes the greatest nightmare for PDP rank and file, given
his prosecution of the defeat of the PDP last year.”
The party asserted that the calls for Tinubu’s trial are
being flaunted by reckless PDP members. It added, according to Leadership
Newspaper, that the agitators are desperately splashing mud to tar others at a
time they are facing weighty corruption cases.
“APC lambasted Lagos PDP saying they are a spent gathering
of losers who face serious indictment for their role in the monumental
corruption that marked the extinct woeful PDP governance in the country,” TTB
added.
Trailing this paradoxical revelation, there have been
emerging calls that the CCT should re-visit the Tinubu’s case as a matter of
rectifying the anomaly and saving the judiciary from allegations of double
standard practice.
Standing tall among those demanding for such readjustment is
the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, who requested through its Lagos branch that
Tinubu should be arraigned for fresh prosecution.
However, the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, has reacted to the call by the PDP, describing it as mere silly
rants of frustrated losers.
A statement obtained by TTB, which was signed by the party’s
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said that “the Lagos PDP, and indeed, the
entire PDP, are suffering acute Tinubu-phobia, borne out of the fact that
Asiwaju Tinubu constitutes the greatest nightmare for PDP rank and file, given
his prosecution of the defeat of the PDP last year.”
The party asserted that the calls for Tinubu’s trial are
being flaunted by reckless PDP members. It added, according to Leadership
Newspaper, that the agitators are desperately splashing mud to tar others at a
time they are facing weighty corruption cases.
“APC lambasted Lagos PDP saying they are a spent gathering
of losers who face serious indictment for their role in the monumental
corruption that marked the extinct woeful PDP governance in the country,” TTB
added.
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