Uprising Crisis:Taraba Women Protest Tribunal Judgement (Read Hole Story)

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Women across the sixteen local government areas of
Taraba State have taken to the streets of Jalingo, the
state capital against the judgment of the tribunal that
sacked the governor of Taraba state, Darius Ishaku,
on ground that his party (PDP) did not conduct any
primary election for him to have emerged as the party’s
governorship candidate for the 2015 general election.

The women, led by Mrs. Fati Hassan converged at
the women and Youths Development center, opposite
Muslim Council in Jalingo, Taraba state capital,
carrying leaves and chanting solidarity songs while
demanding for the return of their mandate.

The former PDP deputy national women leader, Mrs
Hauwa Andetu said the judgment was a robbery to
Taraba state mandate.

“We don’t want outbreak of peace in Taraba state. The
verdict predicted doom. Our sons are dying, we are
tired of loosing our husbands through injustices. Wwhy
was Ishaku accepted in the first place at INEC?
Why are they given a mandate we elected to someone
who did not win our votes? This is injustice”
“The primary election that produced the governor in
Abuja was peaceful and it was not only Taraba state
that conducted their primaries in Abuja. What
happened to the other states? We are calling on the
chief judge of the federation to constitute another panel
to investigate the three judges that constitutes the
Taraba governorship election tribunal.

“We demand for clear justice over the
unjust Saturday judgment. It was Darius Ishaku we
voted for not Aisha Alhasan. All of us here are women
from Taraba state, anybody can trace our roots down
to our local government areas.

“We are not hired women like the once on the streets
of Abuja. We are ready to fight for our right even if
our husbands have gone to sleep over the issue. It is
our children and our husbands that were been killed at
any time injustice was being done. We demand that the
appeal court should be just and return the mandate to
the rightful owner,” the women demanded.

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