Supreme court has chosen to impose strangers on the people of Zamfara after they voted APC- Oshiomhole

Following the annulment of the Zamfara elections by the supreme court , the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole on Monday said that the people of Zamfara voted for APC but that apex court has imposed strangers on them.

The APC chairman who spoke to newsmen on Monday, said APC did not get justice in Zamfara from the supreme court as it ought to have ordered a rerun of the election.

Oshiomhole said, “How can you ask me how I feel if the people of Zamfara voted for us in the manner that they did and the court says that those votes were wasted. Meanwhile, at the time those votes were cast, a high court had ruled that those candidates were validly nominated.”

“There is something that I learnt from Lord Denning, a famous British Supreme Court Justice, that the law has to be interpreted taking into account the intention of the lawmakers and try to deliver justice in its purest form.

“So, there is no justice when on the ground of technicalities, you imposed on the people of Zamfara state, not just a man or a woman, but whole party candidates from governor to senate and others that they didn’t elect.

“If the court thought we were wrong, the justice would have demanded that we repeat. But you can not use technicalities because we are in a democracy, there is nothing democratic when the court imposed strangers to govern a people.

“But we understand that after the supreme court, we can only go to the Court of God. To that extent, we must obey the Court. But what we got in Zamfara is a judgment that didn’t translate to justice.”