PRESS STATEMENT.
PDP WELCOMES JUDGMENT ON JONATHAN’S ELIGIBILITY FOR 2027 PRESIDENCY.
The Peoples Democratic Party @OfficialPDPNig has welcomed the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, which held that President Goodluck Jonathan @GEJonathan is eligible to contest for the Presidency, despite having previously sworn to the oath of office of the President twice.
This judgment is
clearly in alignment with the law and common sense, as laws cannot have a retroactive or
retrospective effect.
The suit, which, for all intents and purposes, was vexatious and a gross abuse of court processes, was a very unnecessary distraction that ought not to have been instituted in the first instance. The punitive cost against the plaintiff is also very much welcomed, to serve as a deterrent to intending busybodies and irritants, who make themselves available for use by those seeking to derail democracy.
This development, coupled with the screening waiver that our party had granted President Goodluck Jonathan, has made the pathway for his presidential rescue mission totally
unfettered, especially as the primaries of the party to select all its candidates will hold on May
28, 2026.
Signed:
Comrade Ini Ememobong, mnipr
National Publicity Secretary
Interim National Working Committee
Peoples Democratic Party
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