The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the September 2024 governorship election in Edo, Asue Ighodalo, says he feels a deep sense of betrayal in the Supreme Court judgment against his governorship bid.
Ighodalo, in his reaction to the apex court verdict today said though he accepted the finality of the judgment, “I do not and cannot pretend that what was delivered amounts to justice.”
He spoke in a statement he personally signed in Abuja shortly after the apex court ruled on the election dispute.
According to him, the election was not a contest but a robbery, stressing that it was “coordinated, deliberate and now, tragically validated by the highest court in the land”.
”While I will not and cannot obstruct any judicial pronouncement, no matter how flawed, I must never fear to speak truth to power,” he said.
he added “I feel a deep sense of betrayal, not just by those who rigged the process, but by the very institutions we trusted to protect our democracy