By SCM Staff Writer I Thursday, Oct.30, 2025
ANAMBRA, Nigeria – The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Anambra State, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, has strongly condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss his case without a full hearing on Monday, describing the outcome as a grievous injury to Nigeria’s democracy.
In a fiery statement titled “UNBROKEN: WE WILL NOT BOW TO DARKNESS,” Ozigbo alleged that the nation’s apex court “bowed, not to truth or justice, but to fear,” acting under “intense pressure from anti-democratic forces.”
The candidate, who had taken his electoral grievances to the highest court, expressed profound disappointment, claiming his lawyers were “silenced” and his case of “truth, merit, and hope” was “denied a hearing.”
”They announced their verdict without listening, decided without examining, and declared without conscience,” Ozigbo stated, asserting that the action was “another painful reminder of a judiciary captured and in urgent need of redemption.”
Despite the crushing judicial setback, Mr. Ozigbo struck a defiant tone, insisting that he and his supporters would not surrender or despair.
”We will not bow. We will not surrender. We will not let darkness write our destiny,” he declared. He anchored his resolve not on the courts, but on the “voice of conscience, the power of faith, and the will of a people who will not bow to the darkness.”
Ozigbo framed his continued struggle not as a personal quest for power, but as a broader “battle for Nigeria’s soul,” stressing the fight will be waged “not with bitterness, but with purpose; not with violence, but with vision.”
He called on his supporters and Nigerians who believe in justice to stand firm, stating, “This battle was never mine alone. It is the struggle of every Nigerian who believes that truth still matters.”
Concluding with an optimistic quote from Martin Luther King Jr. about the long arc of the moral universe bending toward justice, Ozigbo remained resolute.
“Oppression may win a moment, but righteousness wins history. The oppressed who stand with God always have the last laugh,” he said, adding the Igbo affirmation, “Aka Chukwu di ya” (The hand of God is in it).
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