Afrigather Some ladies in Nasarawa State once more staged a protest in Lafia, the state capital, on Tuesday over what they described because the alleged injustice performed to the Peoples Democratic Occasion governorship candidate within the state, David Ombugadu.
The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal had on October 2 sacked Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress and introduced Ombugadu winner.
Unhappy by the judgment, Sule approached the Court docket of Enchantment the place he was declared the winner of the governorship election within the state.
Talking with journalists in Lafia on Tuesday, the chief of the protesting ladies teams, Hanatu John, mentioned democracy was about standard votes and puzzled why an individual with the very best votes wouldn’t be declared the winner of an election within the state.
John decried the extent of insecurity within the state, which she mentioned had stopped many residents from going to their farmlands, and known as on the Supreme Court docket to ship justice within the case within the curiosity of humanity.
She appealed to President Bola Tinubu and the worldwide neighborhood to intervene within the matter to save lots of democracy within the state and, by extension, all the nation.
She mentioned, “We began this week’s protest on Monday, December 25, as a result of celebrating Christmas appears void when our mandate was stolen from us.
“We’ve got been right here since March protesting what we described as electoral injustice. In the course of the governorship election, we voted for Ombugadu not Sule. However we hope that the appropriate factor shall be performed on the Supreme Court docket.
“We’re due to this fact, urging the judges to critically look into the governorship election outcomes from Nasarawa State in order that our mandate shall be restored.”
Corroborating John, one other protester, Margaret Alu, mentioned they gathered for the protest as a result of that they had not been completely happy since Governor Sule was declared the winner of the March 18 governorship election within the state by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee.
“We’re in anguish. We left our husbands and youngsters behind as a result of celebrating Christmas when we aren’t completely happy will not be correct. A few of us are widows, whereas others are jobless as a result of our farmlands have been taken by the herdsmen.
“All we search is justice, and till our mandate is returned, we is not going to relent in our day by day peaceable demonstrations,” she mentioned.
The PUNCH studies that the ladies who wearing black attires wielded placards with a number of inscriptions, equivalent to “Depend Each Vote: Defend Democracy in Nasarawa State” “Deliver again our mandate: Our votes are our Rights;” and “Our farms usually are not secure, our husbands are killed, widows are raped,” amongst others.
