Nobody can provoke us to withdraw case against Jonathan –CPC

Posted by admin CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, Party Politics Saturday, September 10th, 2011

The National Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change, Chief Tony Momoh, has declared that his party will not be provoked to withdraw its case against President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Election Tribunal

He said his party would not be cowed into withdrawing the case, which is already before the tribunal, in spite of what he called attempts by the government to stifle the party.

The CPC, he said, would pursue the case in which the party is contesting the declaration of Jonathan as the winner of the April presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Momoh, after the emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Friday, alleged that the refusal of an Appeal Court to grant it its request to carry out a forensic test of the votes was orchestrated by the government.

He said the freezing of its accounts in three banks was another plan by the government to weaken it mentally.

He said, “Our intention of asking for a forensic test was to know those who are ghosts in the voting process and remove them, and also know those who are not supposed to vote in a particular place they had voted and also remove them from the list.

“Now, we have been denied access to the data that would have given us the opportunity to show that lots of the votes announced either did not exist or were ghost votes or multiple votes.”

He said it was laughable for an appeal court to sit on a case already decided by another appeal court.

Momoh said, “The Court of Appeal sat over a judgement of a court of appeal that we should have access to all the data. On May 24, the the re-jigged Court of Appeal decided that access means ‘go and look at millions ballot papers and don’t take any copies,’ which is totally in disagreement with what the court of appeal that was in place constitutionally pronounced.

“This case is on and we are not withdrawing, not on the basis of actions of a few. We will leave those people not just to the judgement of today but for the judgement in future and prosperity.”

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