ANPP Chairman Tasks Election Tribunals On Justice

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the National Chairman of All Nigeria People Party (ANPP), has called on all\ Election Petitions Tribunals to ensure that justice is done to all  parties. He made this call at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the  party’s secretariat in Abuja.

Onu said the judiciary was the last hope for the aggrieved and that justice should be given without fear or favour to all the election cases before them.

“I call on the various Election Petitions Tribunals currently adjudicating on different election matters to ensure that justice is done in the cases before them.

“The judiciary remains the last hope of the aggrieved; the Judiciary should insist that this is wrong and unacceptable by dispensing with justice without fear or favour”.

Onu insisted that no Nigerian was above the law, saying that “a manipulated election cannot produce good leaders who can serve the people selflessly and honestly.

“When an election is manipulated, it promotes violence as those cheated in the process resort to self – help to protest their dissatisfaction, particularly when they do not have confidence that the judiciary can deliver justice.

Onu said the judiciary should close their eyes to undue influences and insist on being a sacred temple of justice no matter who is standing before them.

He said the NEC meeting was to arm the party with important task of national renewal and rebirth that would move the party forward and also meet the expectations of Nigerians.

“We shall put forth an Action Plan that will embody our Reform Initiative for a better and stronger New ANPP that will meet the expectations of all Nigerians, before, during and after the next general elections in 2015.”

He said the party would inaugurate five committees to help review its operations, listing them as the financial, contact, mobilization, constitutional amendment and fact finding committee.

The chairman of the financial committee, Governor Abdul-Azeez Yari of Zamfara, said they would not disappoint the party for finding them worthy to serve its cause.