Anthony Ehilebo, a member of the PDP loyal to embattled national chairman Kabiru Turaki, has said that PDP belongs to all its members, while also calling for public institutions to work towards restoring public trust.
Ehilebo said this in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Monday, where he discussed PDP’s Appeal Court judgement.
This comes after recent rulings by the Appeal Court which clarified certain internal processes in the PDP.
“I don’t belong to the Turaki faction. I belong to what I believe is PDP. PDP doesn’t belong to one man. PDP belongs to all of us”, he declared.
Adding, he said: “I really did scenario mapping just before the judgments came out and we, for lack of a better word, form more on the divide and which is a majority of Nigerians which have lost confidence in outcomes and judicial outcomes because a string of incidents within the last couple of weeks have led us to believe that we have a lot of work to do to regain the confidence of Nigerians in our public institutions.”
He noted that the judgement of the Court of Appeal is subject to appeal.
“Well, the court has said the convention and all that, that’s the appeal court. They’re still subject to appeal. And that’s why you have higher courts which will interpret this. And even if they don’t interpret it, the party is still intact”, he assured.
Dismissing claims that PDP’s legal problems are due to incompetence, Ehilebo said that they were set up by internal saboteurs.
“No, you know, when you have fifth columnists, what they do is place landmines for the party to fall and stumble. Par right notices. PDP has the most evolved directory of mobilization headed by a very young man called Yemi, brilliant. So months before, Yemi sends out notices”, he said.
He further revealed that the PDP will be taking the legal battle to the Supreme Court for further deliberations.
“And I think that’s done now, so we might have to just wait until we get to the Supreme Court. It’s already instructed. There was a statement released this evening where they had instructed the lawyers to approach the Supreme Court, while the organs of the party—which is the BOT—is untouched.”
Ehilebo stressed that the court did not recognise any faction as the “authentic PDP,” and that it merely upheld the existing Federal High Court judgment.
“The court didn’t say they’re the authentic…. They upheld the judgment of the subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court”, he clarified.
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