PDP to VP: don’t subject yourself to traditional rulers manipulation, as Tinibu stands for truth —PDP ***alleges Traditional rulers working to influence tribunal judgement

By David Okpashi

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP Nasarawa chapter has appealed the the Vice President, Alhaji Kashim Shettiman to distance himself from the activities of the traditional rulers working against the governorship election tribunal sitting in the state.

This is even as the party has accused Traditional rulers in the state of using external forces to influence the judgement at the ongoing governorship tribunal sitting in Lafia.

The PDP state chairman, Chief Francis Orogu made the allegation on Friday in Lafia while addressing journalists.

According to the opposition PDP Chairman, traditional rulers in the state were allegedly abandoning their traditional role by dabbling into politics and taking side on issues bordering on the interest of the entire state.

“We are aware of the position of the traditional rulers in the state who have taken to side a political party before, during and after the last elections. They have vowed that they will use their position to ensure nobody else win the seat of the governor if not Abdullahi Sule.

“We are not also surprised that they have organized themselves despirately to visit the Vice president to lobby him to influence the decision of the tribunal in favour of governor Abdullahi Sule.

“Nothing is hidden in this era of digital age where information travel fast, nothing done in secrete cannot longer be hidden.. The traditional rulers claimed they visit was to thank the vice president for appointing their son and Daughter from the state as ministers. Is it the Vice president that appointed the ministers?, the Chairman questioned.

“Our greatest shock is that three of the traditional rulers who are involved in this mission are former chief judges. But why should they allow themselves to be used to frustrate or influence the judicial proceeding against the will of the citizens’ votes in the last elections.

“We are aware too that these traditional rulers who are former justices have their influences in the judicial world. But we believe God almighty has the final say too.

The state PDP boss appealed to the Vice president to be the father to all not to allow his honorable office used to frustrate court proceedings, stressing that allowing justice to reign without tempering or interfering with the decision of the court on election matter will mean well for the nation’s political system.

“These same traditional rulers could not persuade their subjects to vote APC both at the presidential elections and governorship but allow the ruling APC to lost to both Obi Obi and the Labor party in the state.

“The actions of our monarchs at this critical period does not only show that the traditional rulers are now politician but monarchs who have religated themselves to the dictate of the governors

“It is because they have allowed politics infiltrated into the traditional institution where politicians now control and dictate what they want and not what the traditional stool stand to achieve.

The PDP chairman appealed to traditional rulers in the state to restrict themselves to their core mandates of ensuring peaceful coexistence and security of their communities instead of engaging in politics of rancor and sentiment.

While expressing the strong convictions on the position of the tribunal that justice would be delivered added that his party and the governorship candidate of his party, Dr. David Emmanuel Ombugadu would shame those seeking manipulation of the tribunal judgement in the state because Nasarawa people spoke through their votes ever since.