A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has criticized Justice Uche Agomoh over her judgment in the ongoing party crisis, accusing her of exceeding her judicial mandate.
Sani, speaking on the fallout from the Ibadan court ruling, said the party did not celebrate the judgment because it was not involved in initiating the case.
He stated this while speaking in an interview with Trust Tv.
He said, “I never celebrated the judgment of the Ibadan court not because it is not worth celebrating, it is because we are not the ones that took the matter to court.
“That matter was taken to court by a contestant at that time who was trying to contest for Deputy National Organizing Secretary. Even if the judgment favors our faction, the fact that it is not we that filed the suit in court makes it very clear that we are not complicit in trying to obtain or procure, as you put it, judgment in a High Court in Ibadan.”
Sani added that the party had only approached the courts for a specific purpose – an order of mandamus at the Federal High Court in Ibadan.
“The only case we took to court was the one we were looking for an order of mandamus in a Federal High Court in Ibadan, which Justice Agomuo ruled against us,” he said.
“The matter before her was only an order of mandamus. There was no prayer for any other thing, but she digressed and she became a Father Christmas and gave out things that even the other party didn’t ask. She gave it up. So we’ll challenge that.”
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