The governorship aspirant on the ticket of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), for Benue state in the 2015 general elections Prince Terhemen Tarzoor has sharply differed with his listing on the National Human Right Commission’s report of persons indicted over electoral violence.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. C T Hwande, a copy to which was made available to The AUTHORITY in Makurdi, the PDP chieftain explained that throughout his political life, he has never directly or indirectly incited political violence even when certain decisions were manipulated against his political future.
It added that the Commission of Inquiry which is a fact-finding body ought to have invited him to state his own side of allegations leveled against him regretting that no such invitation was extended to him from the Commission and therefore imagined how it arrived at its resolutions indicting him.
The statement partly read, “That the said indictment was as a result of a Seven Man Commission of Inquiry set up by the NHRC which recommendations the Commission has acted on. My observation is however that, a Commission of Inquiry is a fact-finding body and, therefore, ought to have invited my honourable self for proof of allegations leveled against me, if any at all.
The fact that I didn’t receive any invitation from the Commission, abinitio, makes me imagine how it arrived at its resolutions indicting me even when it denied me the opportunity of fair hearing.
I wish to reiterate that, nothing would have stopped me from attending its sessions if I was invited to appear before the Commission of Inquiry for questioning.
“I wish to herein state and clarify that, I am a peaceful and law abiding citizen of our dear country Nigeria and I have never taken laws into my hands. I have always abide by the rule and due process of the law especially with specific regard to election matters.
It must be recalled that, in 2011, I was re-elected into the Benue State House of Assembly on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was therein elected Speaker of the State Assembly but was subsequently removed from office as a result of irregularities observed in the conduct of the election by INEC, through a judgement of the Appeal Court panel sitting in Makurdi and I accepted the verdict of the Court.
“Again as candidate of the PDP in the April 11 2015 Governorship Election in Benue State, after the election results were declared against me, I approached the Election Petition Tribunal and went all the way through the Appeal Court to the Supreme Court wherin, the Apex Court gave a judgement against me. No matter how dissatisfied I was with the verdicts of the various courts, I accepted the outcomes and has since put them behind me.”
The statement quoted Mr. Tarzoor declaring that he is peaceful and law abiding citizen of Nigeria and will never take laws into his hands adding that he will always abide by the rules and due process of the law especially with specific regard to election matters
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In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. C T Hwande, a copy to which was made available to The AUTHORITY in Makurdi, the PDP chieftain explained that throughout his political life, he has never directly or indirectly incited political violence even when certain decisions were manipulated against his political future.
It added that the Commission of Inquiry which is a fact-finding body ought to have invited him to state his own side of allegations leveled against him regretting that no such invitation was extended to him from the Commission and therefore imagined how it arrived at its resolutions indicting him.
The statement partly read, “That the said indictment was as a result of a Seven Man Commission of Inquiry set up by the NHRC which recommendations the Commission has acted on. My observation is however that, a Commission of Inquiry is a fact-finding body and, therefore, ought to have invited my honourable self for proof of allegations leveled against me, if any at all.
The fact that I didn’t receive any invitation from the Commission, abinitio, makes me imagine how it arrived at its resolutions indicting me even when it denied me the opportunity of fair hearing.
I wish to reiterate that, nothing would have stopped me from attending its sessions if I was invited to appear before the Commission of Inquiry for questioning.
“I wish to herein state and clarify that, I am a peaceful and law abiding citizen of our dear country Nigeria and I have never taken laws into my hands. I have always abide by the rule and due process of the law especially with specific regard to election matters.
It must be recalled that, in 2011, I was re-elected into the Benue State House of Assembly on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was therein elected Speaker of the State Assembly but was subsequently removed from office as a result of irregularities observed in the conduct of the election by INEC, through a judgement of the Appeal Court panel sitting in Makurdi and I accepted the verdict of the Court.
“Again as candidate of the PDP in the April 11 2015 Governorship Election in Benue State, after the election results were declared against me, I approached the Election Petition Tribunal and went all the way through the Appeal Court to the Supreme Court wherin, the Apex Court gave a judgement against me. No matter how dissatisfied I was with the verdicts of the various courts, I accepted the outcomes and has since put them behind me.”
The statement quoted Mr. Tarzoor declaring that he is peaceful and law abiding citizen of Nigeria and will never take laws into his hands adding that he will always abide by the rules and due process of the law especially with specific regard to election matters
Read more at The Authority News
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