By Dirisu Yakubu

ABUJA—Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Walid Jibrin, has dismissed media report of an alternative political platform for supporters of the party in the event of an unfavourable Supreme Court decision.

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Senator Jibrin, who issued the refutal in a statement yesterday, described the insinuations as untrue and unfounded.

According to him, the party is confident in the ability of the apex court to dispense justice in the ongoing leadership tussle involving two factions of the party.

The Supreme Court has adjourned its sitting on the party’s leadership tussle till May 24.

He stressed the difficulty involved in the adoption of an alternative party, arguing that such a development would involve consultations across board.

Jibrin also congratulated PDP governors who won all seats in recent local government elections in their states .

The statement read:  “The attention of the PDP Board of Trustees has been drawn to series of publications alleging that PDP has adopted a particular political party just newly registered as its fallback position.”

‘’I want to make it very clear that PDP has never formed any alternative party. If it has to agree on something like that, all organs and forums of the party viz the BoT, National caucus, PDP Governors Forum, National Assembly Caucus, States PDP Chairmen Forum, Former Ministers Forum, Former Governors Forum, various Youths Fora, Elders Forum nationwide, women Forum, etc, will be fully consulted before such a very sensitive decision is taken.

‘’The onus is on the apex court to do the right thing at the appropriate time.  I want to assure our teeming supporters that PDP accepts the judicial processes going on at the Supreme Court and that we are very confident that the Supreme Court shall freely and independently take fair decision which will be historic in Nigeria’s democracy.

“I want to appeal to all PDP members to remain resolute, united and absolutely loyal to the party and remain committed to following all legal process in order to redeem the image of our party as anything not built on truth will fail and falsehood will crash.

‘’Any child that does not allow his mother to sleep, will himself not sleep. I want to further assure our members and supporters.’’