The founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, has said the party is disappointed with the Supreme Court’s ruling, dismissing NNPP’s petition against the 2023 Taraba governorship election outcome.
Aniebonam, who expressed this on Friday in Lagos, however, said the party had decided to move on and look ahead for a new Nigeria in future elections.
Urging party members and loyalists to be law abiding, the NNPP boss said: “We leave it at that and look ahead in the future for the emergence of a new Nigeria of our hope and dreams.
“The mantra of new hope for Nigeria must be our guiding principles.”
Expressing disappointment, Aniebonam said that understanding the party’s loss of victory in Taraba ” is of man in the physical other than spiritual rhymes.
“Those who thought they have won are the actual losers because the justice system of God did not prevail but that of man.
“In particular, the registrar of the tribunal who did not disclose the actual records of proceedings for the use of the appeal court and the supreme Court.
“Under the circumstances, the appeal court and the Supreme Court cannot build on nothing in making decisions in relation to justice system of the Supreme Being.
“Supreme Court is supreme in the physical and the law and there is nothing anyone can do at the moment .
“The God of the NNPP is reactionary with high responses to injustice to man, society and even the dead,” Aniebonam said.
The New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Supreme Court on Thursday, upheld the election victory of Agbu Kefas of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 Taraba governorship election.
Kefas’ victory at the polls was challenged by NNPP and its candidate, Prof. Yahaya Sani at the Taraba Governorship Election Tribunal and Appeal Court before the party approached the apex court for justice being unsatisfied with rulings of the lower courts.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja had upheld the judgment of the Taraba State Governorship Election Tribunal which affirmed Kefas as the duly elected governor of the state.
The NNPP had prayed the courts below to invalidate the governor’s election for non-compliance with the 2022 Electoral , adding that he didn’t score the majority of lawful votes cast. (NAN)