About a week after the Supreme Court verdict on the April
11, 2015, governorship election in Akwa Ibom State affirming Governor Udom
Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the elected governor, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has rejected the judgment.
Accordingly, the party has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the judgment by instituting an inquiry into the various and widely held notion that the Supreme Court judgment was procured through huge financial inducements.
“We believe such enquiry is
inevitable to address the possible consequences of the Supreme Court judgment
which is bound to encourage resort to self-help, violence and all forms of
illegality and barbarity in the quest for power.
“We believe that this purchased judgment from the Supreme Court does not reflect the president’s desire to weed corruption from our society,” the party stressed.