APC exposes how Wike won Supreme Court judgment
- APC has revealed how Governor Nyesom Wike procured Supreme Court judgment
- The party link a former governor of the state whose wife is a justice of the Supreme Court as the brain behind judgement
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers state has stated that the revelation of Governor Nyesom Wike about how he won the state gubernatorial poll dispute at the Supreme Court as an indictment on the apex court.
Wike had said during a thanksgiving service on February 7, narrated how a former governor of the state, Dr. Peter Odili would call him at night to instruct him on what to do and who to see adding that he took all the advice which could be attributed to his victory.
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The APC in a statement by its chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, on Tuesday, February 16, in Port Harcourt said that the governor statement had ended the mystery over how he secured the judgment considering that Odili’s wife, Mary Odili, is one of the justices of the Supreme Court.
Ikanya said: “That Wike may have influenced the outcome of the judgement given by the Supreme Court for PDP in Rivers State was further exposed by PDP supporters, who started celebrating the judgement by 9am – almost ten hours before the incredulous judgement was delivered at 6.45pm on Wednesday, January 27, 2016.”
The APC expressed disappointment over the judgment adding that by the verdict, the people of the state had been denied the opportunity to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of their choice just because “to Wike, everything in this world, including every judgement, has a price tag”, PM News reports.
The party further added that the party aligned itself with the position of the Head of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Committee, Professor Itse Sagay, who said that the apex court reason for delivering the judgment was not convincing.
Sagay had reacted to the verdict of the court saying: “Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over the blood of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there.”
He lamented that what the Supreme Court had done is to set the clock of electoral excellence and fairness and credibility back.
Sagay said: “ I do not want to say a thousand years, but certainly it is taking us back to where we were before (former INEC Chairman, Prof. Atahiru) Jega came in and sanitized the system.”
The party, however, stated that: “the blood of our 100 members killed to install Wike as Rivers State Governor will one day touch the minds of the Supreme Court Justices and make them to give correct judgments that will save Nigeria from the shame in the international community occasioned by this unjust judgment.”
Source: Legit.ng
