An Abuja-based Civil Rights Activist under the aegis of the Abuja Grassroots project has called on the FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello to respect the decision of the Area Council Election Tribunal that has ordered the Stay of Execution as regards the earlier judgement delivered by the Tribunal sacking the AMAC Chairman, Hon Christopher Maikalangu.
Addressing the group who protested along Airport road and Apo Resettlement Village in Abuja, Comrade Yunusa Yusuf, warned that any act that would further offend the sensibility of the peace-loving people of the Federal Capital Territory by trying to pleas the desperation of some self-imposed godfathers and moneybags from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), would be seriously resisted.
Speaking against the backdrop of heightening tension creeping across the twelve electoral wards of the municipality occasioned by the three-member FCT Election Petition Tribunal judgement, Comrade Yusuf said that “the judgement was largely croookish, outlandish, incredible and ripping.
“We, the people of FCT, will not accept the dethronement of a legitimate government until the determination of an appeal already filed by lawyers of the incumbent Chairman of AMAC, Christopher Maikalangu.”
Yusuf further warned the FCT Minister not to contemplate acceding to the inordinate desperation of what he described as “political jobbers and exuberant political players who see power as man made and as such, do not seem to play the game according to the rules believing that money is an end to clinching power by buying the judiciary”.
He said that thwarting the victory of Maikalangu and transferring it to “a usurpers and desperados” will not augur well for the people”.
Speaking further, he demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the FCT Minister should respect the Stay of Execution Order obtained by Hon. Zakka’s counsel.
“Indeed, the Minister will not rubbish himself by following such acts of deliberate subversion of justice by Swearing-in someone under this situation. Doing this, will further complicate the fragile peace and security that pervades the FCT” he said.
