A group, under the aegis of Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (FHRACC), has faulted a recent statement credited to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun over the judgment of the Supreme Court on the Rivers governorship election.
The party leader had in a statement faulted the judgment of the court, which upheld the election of Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party as the governor of the state.
He said the apex court and its judges should be probed for delivering judgment in favour of the PDP.
Reacting to Oyegun’s submission, the group said his statement was an affront to the independent of the judiciary.
FHRACC in a statement by its president, Alaowei Cleric Esq., the group warned the party chieftain to stop heating up the polity with his sentimental statement.
The statement reads in full.
“The statement accredited to the APC national Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun in some national dailies on the 4th of February 2016 where he was quoted to have said that the Supreme Court Judges should be probed for delivering judgment in favour of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The said statement which was not only made in bad light, it was made to denigrate the sanctity of the judiciary. His careless and irresponsible statement which is lacking in substance in our view exposes the failed plan of the APC led-Government to turn the judiciary to an agency of the executive arm in order to serve its whims and caprices.
“If a person of Oyegun’s repute can make such incongruous statement, ostensibly to serve party interest as against national interest then our democracy is in great danger. No wonder President Buhari said the judiciary is his biggest headache. Oyegun who was gloating over the contradictory and conflicting judgments the lower courts were given in the same election matters in favour of his Party did not deemed it proper to call for probe of those judges now calling for the probe of the Supreme Court Justices because the judicial pendulum swing against his Party? What a shame?
In an in-depth look at the wordings of the APC Chairman, we can safely inferred that the ruling Government has set in motion, a machinery to cage the judiciary thereby turning the Country into a tyrannical conclave where it can rule the Country by blood and iron. This is a dangerous tendency to our body polity. Nigerians should be vigilant to resist this despotic approach of governance. We therefore called on the National Assembly to be alive to resist the APC tyrannical approach to kill our fledging democracy.”
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