Assault on Odili, part of APC’s plot to hijack 2023 elections
Tunde Opalana, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm that the assault on Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court is a renewed plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack the 2023 election as it did in 2019.
The party describes the attack on Justice Odili as “horrendous, rascally, irresponsible, completely unjustified” and should not be swept under the carpet on the guise of misleading whistleblower operation.
In a statement by National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party further alleged that the pawprints of the APC are visible in the incident, in its desperation to cow the judiciary and subvert the cause of justice ahead of the 2023 elections.
The PDP said “it is clear that the attack on Justice Odili is part of a renewed script by the APC. Nigerians will recall how, ahead of the 2019 election, former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, was clandestinely yanked off from his hallowed chamber, preparatory to the massive rigging that characterized the 2019 Presidential election.
“Nigerians can equally recall how respected judges were assaulted by the APC administration through obnoxious sting operations in a bid to arm-twist the judiciary and set the stage for the endorsement of a culture of impunity that characterized the 2019 elections”.
The PDP however cautioned the APC and its Presidency apparatchik to know that times have changed,stressing that Nigerians are not ready to stomach a repeat of APC’s coordinated assault on our institutions of democracy, but will firmly resist them with every means available within the ambit of the law”.
The party also urged the judiciary to remain firm and not be deterred by the suppressive proclivities of the APC.
The PDP called on Nigerians to stand in defence of democracy by continuing in their demand that the real perpetrators of the attack on Justice Mary Odili be exposed and brought to book.
