PDP ACCUSES APC OF CRITICISING JUDICIARY

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All progressives Congress of criticising the judiciary.
It said the alleged action was part of the ideology of the opposition party which the ruling party said was aimed at destroying the nation and throwing it into anarchy.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Sunday, said the attacks and denigration of the Federal Government by the APC as well as the legislative was aimed at confusioning the National Assembly.
Metuh said, “Why is weird anarchism an option for the APC? Consistently, this party has attacked and denigrated the executive and Nigerians excused it on the desperation of a political party that claims an alternative.
“It then took on the legislature where its crisis recipe in gerrymandering has yielded no result. Now, the APC is on a renewed aggression on the judiciary. Why is nihilism the APC preferred option?”
Metuh further said that it was unfortunate that the APC was waging such a battle whose tragic consequences on the institutions of democracy were well known while at the same time jamming the political space with its pretensions on democracy.
The party spokesperson further expressed worry that the APC’s penchant for the blackmail of judicial officers, paint them as inept and compromised where it failed to secure its bidding and turned a defender of the same institution when the reverse was the case, had been a running streak in “the APC whose component metamorphosis, the ACN denoted a chilling tale of corrupt influence in the judicial victory of two governorship seats in the South-West.”
However, the APC has said it has profound respect for all institutions especially the judiciary.
In an e-mail sent to our correspondent from Washington DC, USA, Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the party maintained its position on the subject.
He said it was because of its respect for the judiciary that the party was always worried whenever it perceiveed anything capable of jeopardizing the integrity and independence of that great institution.
He said “The obiter credited to Justice Adeniyi Ademola advising the 37 defecting legislators to vacate their seats and the manner the judgment was reported by a large section of the media was alarming and capable of tarnishing the image of the judiciary and that is why we expressed our strong disavowal and disappointment.”
Source: Punch