‘Supreme Court judgment on Imo governorship robbery, shameful’

 

• Elder statesman Mbazulike Amechi asks Court to reverse judgment

 

BY OUR EDITOR

First Republic Aviation Minister and only surviving member of the Zikist Movement, Chief Mbazuluike Amechi, has described the Supreme Court judgment that uprooted former Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, as robbery against Imo people and a shame to Nigeria and the judicial system.

Chief Amechi advised the Supreme Court to save the country and itself from “embarrassment, shame and insult” by reversing its decision to sack Ihedioha and enthroning former Senator Hope Uzodinma, as the new governor.

The elder statesman in a statement issued Thursday and titled, ‘Save this Nation’, said the judgment that removed Ihedioha as governor has brought dishonour to the Supreme Court of Nigeria and shame to Nigeria and should be reversed without further delay.

He said the apex court has no alternative than to meet again and review the judgment of the Imo governorship election to see if it made a mistake and correct it and save its face.

“That Supreme Court judgment in Imo State governorship election was a robbery against the people of Imo State, it is a shame to the Nigerian Judiciary, Nigerian Supreme Court, the Judges and Nigeria as a country.

“It made nonsense to the divinity of justice, the world is condemning it, the world is condemning what the Nigerian judiciary particularly, the Supreme Court has done in Imo State, if they want to save the judiciary of the embarrassment, shame and insult they brought to it and the country, they have no choice than to meet again to find a way of correcting it to save face of the judiciary, the Supreme Court their faces and the face of the country and the embarrassment they have caused the country.

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“I would not like to be involved in the matters of law so much because I am not a lawyer, but however, I see that judgment of the Supreme Court as a judgment that should not have been, it was not a true judgment, it was not just, a miscarriage of justice taken too far.

“I see it like many others across Nigeria and the world, as a judgment that has brought the country to disrepute and shame in the face of the whole world, the whole world is condemning it and seeing Nigeria as a shame of a country, so the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, will have honour again if they review what they have done in Imo State and redress the wrong.

“The judiciary of Nigeria will have honour again if the Supreme Court meets again to revise the whole thing they did in Imo State, they have no alternative than to meet again, and revise the whole of that judgment to know where they made mistake, to correct it, it is not a matter of being proud, or saying we have the final say, but a matter that has drawn so much anger and condemnation from across the world and brought the country shame, and so should be corrected if not for anything, for the face of the country.

“The honour and dignity of justice are that there are honesty and justice or there appears to be justice on what the Court at that level did or said in a matter like that which has attracted international attention,” the nonagenarian said unequivocally.