Home NEWS POLITICS PDP Goes To Court To Challenge Buhari’s Order Against Ballot Box Snatchers

PDP Goes To Court To Challenge Buhari’s Order Against Ballot Box Snatchers

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has gone to court to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to security operatives that ballot box snatchers should be made to pay with their lives.

In a suit filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the party asked the court to declare Buhari’s directive as unconstitutional, unlawful and void.

The party also sued the minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello before a FCT high court over the “gigantic broom” erected by the All Progressives Congress (APC) near Abuja city gate.

It urged the court to issue an order compelling the minister to investigate allegations of intimidation and illegality which poses potential threat of violence and disunity that the structure may cause.

The party said this follows the permission of the FCT administration or its failure to take action against the broom which it said is an “improper structure.”

President Buhari had given order to the security agencies to be ruthless with ballot box snatchers and thugs, in the general elections which begin with Presidential and parliamentary elections tomorrow, Saturday.

See also:  Supreme Court Gives Ajaka Marching Order To Inspect Kogi Guber Election Materials

He had said: “anybody who thinks he has enough influence in his locality to lead a body of thugs to snatch ballot boxes or disturbs the voting system, will do so at the expense of his own life.”

Leave a Reply