The Coalition of United Political
Parties (CUPP) has alleged that some of the judges on the panel to hear the
petition of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), are working for President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement by Ikenga
Ugochinyere, its spokesman, the coalition said it had seen the names of those
on the five-man panel.
Ugochinyere listed them as Zainab
Adamu-Bulkachuwa, president of the court of appeal; Abdul Aboki; Peter Ige; J.
S. Ikyegh and S. C. Oseji.
He said authorities at Aso Rock
endorsed the list which will soon be made public.
“The approved list which was
intercepted by our credible insider informant during conveyance from the Villa
back to the Court of Appeal was drawn from a list of eight justices submitted
to the Villa for approval,” he said.
“Nigerians will recall that we
had earlier raised alarm over the donation of a Senatorial ticket to the
husband of the President of the Court of Appeal by the APC. We had questioned
the rationale behind such donation when he did not participate in the Primaries
if not to secure the assurance of his wife, the President of the Court, to
constitute with the approval of the Presidency the Panel that will hear any
petition challenging the outcome of the elections.
“It was also a failure to secure
similar assurances from the Chief Justice of the Federation that led to the
onslaught on him by the Federal Government as the Honourable Chief Justice had
insisted on doing only justice and nothing else.
“The list is drafted in such a
way that without any matter properly being before the Justices, the Panel has
been rigged and skewed with three of the Justices on the list having been
approached and commitments secured from them that no matter the evidence put
before them, they were going to rule in favour of the President.
“They are now agents and officers
of the President and not officers in the temple of justice.
Ugochinyere asked Bulkachuwa,
Aboki and Ige to recuse themselves from the panel.
“It is based on the foregoing and
the evidence in the custody of the CUPP that we immediately, categorically and
unambiguously demand that Justices Zaibab Bulkachuwa, Justice Aboki and Justice
Peter Ige recuse themselves from the Panel,” he said.
“The intelligence at our disposal
which formed basis for all the views canvassed in this statement is that these
three Justices have already given their commitment to the Presidency that they
will rule in favour of the President at the Tribunal hence they cannot dispense
justice.
“The President has annexed the
judiciary and the hope of the common man is blighted. Nigerians must rise in
defence of the judiciary and insist that justice must be done in this
circumstance.”
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