We don’t know about Petition against Justice Jummai Sankey’s Panel –PDP Makarfi faction

The Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) led by Sen Ahmed Makarfi yesterday dis­tanced itself from peti­tion written by one Mr. Biyi Poroye against the Justice Jummai Sankey-led Appeal Panel.The party, in a state­ment by its Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said that PDP will never wage war against the ju­diciary but respect its independent and impar­tiality.Dissociating itself from the petition, PDP said, “We find the peti­tion to be distasteful, offensive, indecent and completely out of keep­ing with the principles, ideology, and ethos of our party to make such unsubstantiated allega­tions against members of an institution as important as the Judiciary.“Over the course of our 16 years in power and in our almost 2 years out of power, our party has demonstrated respect and reverence for the judiciary. In this time, we have ensured that we never besmirched the in­tegrity and reputation of the judiciary through the mud, even when we were not comfortable with the judgments and pro­nouncements that were given.“It is important to stress that neither the writer of the petition nor his sponsors are mem­bers of our party. They are a group of people with powerful backers within and outside gov­ernment who are deter­mined to bend all insti­tutions of democracy to suit their whims, failing which they are willing to resort to destructive tac­tics against such institu­tions.”