The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State on Friday announced that it will appeal the Abuja High Court’s decision in favour of Governor Ben Ayade yesterday, IgbereTV reports
The PDP indicated that it would take the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
The party stated that going to the Appeal Court would be “a civilised struggle and an intellectual investigation of the limitations and vastness of our jurisprudence in an unexplored region,” in a statement issued and signed by its Chairman, Vena Ikem.
The party stated that they would not rest until justice is served.
The party had gone to the Abuja High Court over Ayade’s defection to the ruling APC with the governorship mandate, claiming it was a provocation by unscrupulous forces who had previously been awarded the party’s mandate by mistake.
“We will be studying the judgment in its entirety with the certainty of appealing to the next Court of Law until justice is manifestly done.
“The 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
