The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. on Saturday said the judgment of the Taraba state gubernatorial election tribunal in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Hajia Aisha Jummai Alhassan is a manipulation by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC federal government using unorthodox means to decimate the opposition.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a stament on Saturday stated the ruling is another evidence of executive interference in the judiciary.
 
The party said the reason given by the tribunal for arriving at the bizarre decision is intriguing and further exposes the contradictions and double standards inherent in most tribunal rulings against PDP interests recently.
 
Chief Metuh stated further that, “It is rather curious and a great conflict of irony that the Taraba tribunal sitting in Abuja on security grounds faulted the conduct of PDP primaries shifted to the same Abuja on security reasons.”
 
The PDP said if the tribunal is faulting the party primaries as basis for its decision, it then means that no APC gubernatorial candidate can stand the test, as their party never had acceptable primaries in any of their states.
 
The party wants democracy watchers globally to recall that it had earlier alerted the nation and the international community of the grand design by the APC to use the judiciary to wrestle some PDP states, particularly Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Taraba states.
 
According to Metuh, “evidence that Taraba ruling was a product of Presidency manipulation can be deduced from the fact that few hours before the judgment was delivered, the APC had arrogantly announced their victory on the new media.”
 
He maintained that the continuous use of executive power to win court judgement will not spell well for the APC led government as the PDP will do all within its power to stop the anomaly.
Metuh lampooned the Judiciary for its weakness in allowing the Executive arm of government manipulate it.
 
The PDP publicity Secretary called on all party members across the country to remain undaunted as the party will challenge the ruling in the appellate courts, assuring all members of victory.