The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has indicated its intention to appeal the judgement of the tribunal which upheld the election of Senator Bukola Saraki for Kwara Central Senatorial District on Wednesday.
Chairman of the party in the state, Mr. Kayode Olawepo, announced this in a statement issued in Ilorin yesterday.
The statement added that the tribunal dismissed the ACN’s petition without considering the documents attached to it.
He said: “We do not agree with the judgment, and we are definitely going to lodge an appeal against it”.
The ACN candidate in the poll, Dr Ibrahim Yahaya-Oloriegbe, also faulted the verdict.
“We are definitely not satisfied with the ruling of the tribunal and, as such, we have instructed our lawyers to appeal against it immediately. It is purely technical justice, which is totally devoid of substantial justice now being espoused worldwide,” he said.
The ruling PDP however, asserted that? the judgement had absolved the party and its leadership of any wrong doing during the April 201 general elections in the state.
?The PDP director of publicity in the state, Alhaji Mas’ud Adebimpe, during an interview with LEADERSHIP yesterday, said that the judgements delivered by the tribunal last Friday and
Wednesday respectively, in petitions brought by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and ACN against Saraki’s election had “confirmed our earlier position that the ACN was nothing but a bundle noisemakers and propagandists.”
He added: “It is, however, pertinent at this point to call on our brothers and sisters who were deceived into believing that ACN had something good to offer to the good people of Kwara, that ACN was a mere opportunist which has nothing to offer this great state and it should be discarded.”