.Sack of PDP lawmakers miscarriage of justice, says Jang

Dissatisfied with the Court of Appeal judgment in the battle for Nasarawa State governorship seat, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, David Ombugadu, has officially filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge the Court of Appeal judgment of November 23, 2023.

Ombugadu, on Tuesday, filed a petition challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Audu Sule and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Supreme Court.

This was made known to journalists in Lafia, Nasarawa State, yesterday, by the PDP legal team lead, John Abimiku.

Ombugadu had earlier been declared winner of the governorship election at the election petition tribunal presided over by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, in a majority judgment.

Meanwhile, former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has described the Court of Appeal judgment, which sacked all the elected representatives of the PDP at the national and state legislatures as miscarriage of justice.

Jang said the immediate past governor, Simon Lalong, should be penalised for denying the APC, on which platform he became governor, a structure when he imposed Chris Hassan on the APC as state chairman.

The former governor spoke, yesterday, while welcoming the immediate past House of Representatives member for Jos South/Jos East federal constituency, Musa Bagos, who visited him after the appellate court in Abuja sacked him.

He stressed that rather than saying that PDP has no structure, it is the APC that is without structure in the state “because APC never conducted any election to elect its governorship candidate in the 2023 election,” by picking its candidates.

For Jang, the court has had its say, but God is the final arbiter.

He said: “Who said we don’t have structure? In fact, it is the APC that does not have structure because the APC chairman did not buy any form; Lalong handpicked him. Even their candidate was not validly nominated. That is why the members walked out during their congress.”

The former governor also denied that his “irreconcilable” differences with the PDP faction led by Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd) caused the problem for the party, saying that in the first place there was nothing to reconcile as the PDP had no faction.

He accused some PDP members of being moles for APC.