A civil society group, the Civil Liberty Union, has raised
alarm over alleged harrassments and threats against some members of the Supreme
Court panel of Justices presiding over the Osun governorship Appeal by a team
allegedly led by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in
Southwest and 2 governors one from the South West and the other from North
West.
The group alleged that the APC leader and the two governors
were allegedly using the names of President Muhammadu Buhari to intimidate the
Justices to jettison the supremacy of the Constitution and find any way to give
a favourable judgement to Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
This claim was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja and signed by its Coordinator, Mallam Shuaibu Adamu.
The statement added that the APC leader and the 2 governors
went bullish and desperate when they couldn’t get President Buhari to give
explicit support to his quest to influence the Supreme court.
“They went to falsely quote that the President has directed the
Justices to do their bid and forget any matter of constitution by endorsing
Oyetola as Governor.
“We are aware of an evil plot to truncate justice in the
case of Osun state Governorship Appeal before the Supreme Court.
“We want to alert President Muhammadu Buhari that the APC
leader and the two governors are using his name and office to harass and compel
Supreme Justices to rule in their favour.
“This is happening right now and we want the President to
know and act quickly before further damage and utter destruction is done to the
Judiciary.
“From last night till now, the APC leader has been running
helter skelter with both promises of Billions as well as threats of severe
consequences against Justices who do not agree.
“We know authoritatively that President Buhari has told
Justice Tanko that the law should take its cause on Osun. We know that Justice
Tanko has vowed to allow Justice to prevail.
“That was why he is dropping Mr President’s name. We urge
the justices to remain steadfast. The whole world knows what happened in Osun
was a rape of democracy and an affront to the Constitution of the Federal
republic of Nigeria.
“The UK, US and EU all condemned the election especially the
established voter harassments and disenfranchisement that characterized it.
“We affirm to the Justices that ruling on facts and
supremacy of the constitution is the right and conscionable path of honour and
posterity will judge them as bold and courageous standing for equity and
justice.
“We are interested in this matter because it is a stain on
the nation’s democratic credential.We need to clean it up by allowing the truth
and the constitution to prevail.
“Mr President also agreed to this line of thought and that
was why he has directed the Supreme Court to follow the law and their
convictions. We won’t stand by and allow the APC leader to rubbish our country
any further.
“We plan to present a protest letter to the Presidency and
the Chief Justice of Nigeria on this matter,” the group declared.
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