BAYELSA: PDP is a gathering of hypocrites – Buhari Media Organisation (BMO)

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says the PDP is a gathering of hypocrites with little respect for national institutions. The group is also urging the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to apologise to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Tanko Mohammed for insults and comments they made when the apex court’s judgement was not in their favour.

In a statement signed by BMO’s Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said: “After several ill-advised protests against the judiciary and series of invectives against the person of Chief Justice Tanko Muhammed, it was not surprising that the usually loquacious Uche Secondus was tongue-tied when the media sought his reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Bayelsa State gubernatorial election. “We recall how, after the Supreme Court upheld the election of President Buhari, the opposition party suggested that Justice Muhammed that had been in the apex court since 2006 was not qualified to be CJN. “Unprintable words were also used online and offline to describe the apex court, on his watch, especially after some decisions did not favour PDP.”

“So, like many Nigerians, we expect them, if they are indeed men and women of honour, to eat their words, and apologise to a man and an institution that they had not only ridiculed locally but also in the eyes of the international community. “We consider it disingenuous that Secondus described the decision of a Supreme Court panel headed by Justice Mary Odili as a victory for rule of law, but he never for once saw or accepted decisions that went against his party in a similar light,” the group said.

“There is no politically conscious Nigerian that does not know that Justice Mary Odili is the wife of a senior PDP member, yet Justice Muhammed did not consider that as enough reason to deny her the chance to head a panel to sit on a matter as important as that.

“If indeed he was doing the bidding of President Muhammadu Buhari and APC, like PDP wanted Nigerians to believe, would he have allowed Justice Odili to even sit on that panel especially as it has to do with Bayelsa State in the same South South region she is from.

“Would Secondus and PDP elements not raise dust like they did in the case of the President of the Appeal Court Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa if Odili was related by marriage to an APC chieftain? “Even former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who claimed to know Justice Bulkachuwa for her integrity also publicly suggested that he did not trust her to be fair. “Yet, a decision by a panel headed by Justice Odili is being hailed by Atiku and other PDP elements as victory for the ‘rule of law’. We wonder which other words aside from ‘hypocrites’ that could be best used to describe such individuals,” BMO said.