{"id":93806,"date":"2022-04-08T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=93806"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:52:12","slug":"ayade-pdp-to-appeal-high-court-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ayade-pdp-to-appeal-high-court-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayade: PDP to appeal High Court judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1729551675490535751\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State has said they will proceed to appeal the judgment delivered yesterday by an Abuja High Court, in favour of Governor Ben Ayade.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAn indication was given that the PDP will pursue the matter up to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released early Friday morning and signed by its Chairman, Vena Ikem, the party said proceeding to the Appeal Court would remain \u201ca civilized struggle and an intellectual exploration of the limits and vastness of our jurisprudence in this untested territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party said they will not rest until they get justice.<\/p>\n<p>The party had approached the High Court in Abuja over Ayade\u2019s defection to the ruling APC with its governorship mandate, describing it as a provocation by unscrupulous elements who were mistakenly given the mandate of the party in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be studying the judgment in its entirety with the certainty of appealing to the next Court of Law until justice is manifestly done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgment of yesterday by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja is yet another successful exploration of the dept of legal jurisprudence in uncharted territory such as we have at hand. Let me assure you that this judgment is only a step in the overall picture envisaged by our lawyers when they took steps to explore this legal option which has the potential to take both the Judiciary and indeed our entire democracy to another level entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to support our lawyers as they lead us in this battle for the soul of our democracy and good governance of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hailed party stakeholders and supporters for not allowing Ayade to sleep well \u201cwith our stolen mandate and will continue to keep them sleepless for the remainder of the tenure which they shamelessly flaunt at us who made it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Ayade has regretted what they described as an ill-fated adventure to APC, adding that they \u201cwill continue to drive the message home that it was the PDP that was elected to govern Cross River People in 2019 because our people are PDP, body and soul, and not APC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He consoled the supporters not to be dampened by temporary setbacks by yesterday\u2019s judgment.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged them to remain focused as the \u2018bigger picture\u2019 will only birth after the Supreme Court gives its verdict on all issues related to the matter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State has said they will proceed to appeal the judgment delivered yesterday by an Abuja High Court, in favour of Governor&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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