Group Accuses Oshiomhole, Yari of Plotting a Review of S’Court Judgment on Zamfara Elections

An organisation known as Zamafara State Good Governance Group (ZSGGG), at the weekend accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, and other chieftains of the party of mounting pressures on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mohammed Bello, to review the Supreme Court judgement that awarded all elected positions in the state to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Others named in the alleged plot was the immediate past Governor of the state,  Andullziz Yuri, among others.

A statement by the Coordinator of the group, Abdulrahaman Mohammed, said the national chairman of APC and few members of the National Working Committee (NWC) are the masterminds of the plot, adding that the group will resist the plot to revisit the decision of the Supreme Court.

According to the statement, "Exactly one week ago, the National Chairman of APC, Oshiomhole, hosted a delegation of leaders of the party from the state.

"The meeting ended with a directive to the visiting state leaders to seek a review of the judgement of the Supreme Court which nullified the purported victory of the party at the polls during the 2019 elections."

As result, the group said information has emerged that the APC leaders, with the encouragement from their national headquarters, have proceeded to the Supreme Court to seek a review of the landmark judgment.

The Supreme Court had nullified the victory of the APC in all the elections except the presidential polls on the ground that APC violated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines which made it mandatory for political parties to hold party primaries for the purpose of electing party standard bearers for all the elective positions.

The ZSGGG said so far, investigations showed that the just confirmed Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Bello Mohammed, who gave the lead judgement in the Zamfara State suit while acting as the CJN has given his nod to the move by the APC to seek a review of the judgement.

The group said: "Legal experts have said that it is unheard of for the Supreme Court in the history of the judiciary to reverse its judgment on critical issues like the Zamfara State APC political crisis which denied the party the opportunity to field candidates for the 2019 polls.

"Information from the state indicates that there is already uneasiness in the state over the planned review of the judgment which many stakeholders feel may be manipulated in favour of the APC."

The Zamfara group in a statement said such move, if carried out, would throw the state back into a fresh era of security challenges which the new PDP administration in the state is employing all conceivable channels to put an end to.

Zamfara State, the group said: "In the last two years has not known peace as banditry, kidnapping and senseless killings flourished until the coming of the PDP administration.

”We will simply return to an era when we could not sleep with our eyes closed until Governor Mohammed Bello Mutawalle came to power.

"Even though the case listed at the Supreme Court for next week is yet to be made public, our investigations show that the suit may come up at the apex court today or Tuesday with a possibility of a speedy hearing and judgment."