EXPOSED: How Rotimi
Amaechi Procured
Appeal Court
Judgements On Rivers
National Assembly
elections.

Reports have emerged as to how the
controversial judgement of the Court of
Appeal on the National Assembly Elections
Petitions of Rivers State which nullified all
elected National Representatives of the PDP
in Rivers State was procured by the Minister
of Transport and former Governor of the
State, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Based on available evidence, between the 9th
and 10th of December, 2015, prior to the
delivery of the controversial judgment, the
Abuja home of the former Governor
repeatedly hosted the Chairman of the Court
of Appeal Panel on Rivers State National
Assembly Election, Hon. Justice A. B. Gumel,
of the Court of Appeal Ibadan Division.
During the visits, the Hon. Justice Gumel was
at all times in the company of a renowned
Senior Advocate of Nigeria of North Eastern
extraction, who himself is a confidant of Mr.
Amaechi and the conduit by which he had
been ferrying huge sums of money to induce
Justices and assure them of promotions being
the Chief financier of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
Justice Gumel was appointed to superintend
over the Rivers State National Assembly
Elections Appeal Panel by the President of
the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu
Bulkachuwa, wife to a founding member of
both the CPC and the APC, Alhaji Adamu
Bulkachuwa. Justice Bulkachuwa, since the
commencement of sittings of the Election
Petitions Tribunals has come under severe
national criticism over what many term her
Pro-APC leaning.
In a particular instance, in Calabar of Cross
River State, anti-Bulkachuwa protesters who
carried placards and green leaves, dumped
an empty coffin in the front of the tribunal
venue, singing and shouting anti-tribunal
and anti-Bulkachuwa slogans around the
casket. The protesters said they were
expressing their displeasure at the manner
in which the National/State Assemblies
Election Petitions Tribunal (Panel 1) was
“deliberately” constituted to ensure that the
petitions against the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) candidates never got justice.
The rejectionists were of the Cross River
State Diocese of Wesley Synod International
African Foundation, and the Cross Rivers
State Chapter of the College of Clergies in
Politics. They protested “alleged crafty and
wicked legal academic blunders” perfected
during the tribunal’s six months sitting in
Calabar and called for the cancellation of
all illegalities.
It is the same crafty and legal blunders
that have also characterised the judgment
of the Court of Appeal in the Rivers State
National Assembly Elections Petitions appeal
in which the elections of members of the
National Assembly from Rivers State who were
elected on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) were annulled on the
basis of noncompliance with the electoral
guidelines, chief among which was the non-
use of the controversial card readers.
It would be interesting to note that the same
Court of Appeal in the case of Agbaje vs.
Ambode and in a well-reasoned judgment
delivered by Justice Obande Festus Ogbuinya
held thus: “The extant Electoral Act (2010)
which predates the concept (of card reader)
is not its parent or progenitor. Since it is not
the progeny of the Electoral Act, fronting it
as a ground to challenge any election does
not have its (the Electoral Act’s) blessing,
nay Section 138 (1) of it.
Put simply, a petitioner cannot project the
non-presence or improper use of smart card
reader as a ground for questioning an
election. It does not qualify as one.” On the
strength of the aforesaid, and without it
adducing any basis founded in law to
sustain its position, it then follows that with
the position of the Justice Gumel led appeal
panel, the Court of Appeal has been dragged
down the slippery slope of judicial
partisanship and veered off the hallmark
and import its sworn duty to administer
justice without fear or favour.
Many jurists, lawyers and citizens have
expressed worry over the fact that almost all
tribunal judgments in PDP controlled States,
especially in the South-South, have been
reasonably skewed to undermine clear
provisions of the law and for the benefit of
the APC.
Apart from the established discrepancies
and conflict of judgment within the same
Court of Appeal on the issue of the non-use
of Card Readers, the Bulkachuwa led Appeal
Court, which constituted the Tribunals is also
faced with conflicting positions on the issue
of 21 days compulsory notice to the
Independent National Electoral Commission
before the conduct of any Primary Election
as mandated in S. 85(1) of the Electoral Act
2010. S. 85 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010
provides as follows:
“A registered political party shall give the
Commission at least 21 days notice of any
convention, congress, conference or meeting
convened for the purpose of electing
members of its executive committees, other
governing bodies or nominating candidates
for any elective offices specified under this
Act.”
The fundamental basis for nullifying Darius
Ishyaku’s election of Taraba State was that
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) didn’t
comply with Section 85 of the Electoral Act,
2010, in notifying the Independent National
Electoral Commission of its primaries. But on
the same issue, the Appeal Court ruled
differently in the appeal brought by the APC
against the PDP National Assembly
Candidates in Rivers State claiming that a
notice served before a change in date for
the Primary and without another notice
served to INEC of the new date, amounted to
a proper notice of the new date. Where in
the world does that happen?
Does this action by Justice Gumel not amount
to toppling the law and turning it on its
head in every material particular, and
writing a judgment that is legally laughable
and in the service of his President, Justice
Bulkachuwa, wife to an APC chieftain,
Adamu Bulkachuwa and Rotimi Amaechi, the
chief financier of the APC, rather than to
serve the cause of justice? Does the fragile
polity deserve the combustible heat being
generated by the judiciary and by effect
the APC?
What good does it serve to continuously dash
the confidence of the people in democracy?
Why should the judiciary make itself the tool
to undermine justice and democracy? Are
the authorities deaf and dumb and blind to
these atrocities? Why do we have sacred cows
who weigh down the judiciary with the
burden of their corrupt practices and
undermine the progress of our democracy?
Why does the Adamawa-born SAN, who has
been serially manipulated in countless
corrupt deals within the judiciary continue
to go scot free? Is he higher in rank or
superior to the SANs who have been debarred
in the past for conducts such as his?
Is this the new face of the judiciary where
anything goes; the hallmark of the so-called
anti-corruption government? Nigerians
around the country and diplomats alike
expressed disappointment with rewarding Mr.
Amaechi with a ministerial appointment in
spite of his being a man burdened with
corruption and having cases to answer in
court.
With the inducement of Judges, right inside
his home, the Minister for Transport has
elevated the art of corruption to statecraft.
What remains to be seen is a decisive action
by the President to distance himself from
such actions rather than endorse them with
his silence. Justice Gumel is already pestering
the Court of Appeal panel empaneled with
the Appeal of Governor Wike and the Rivers
State House of Assembly to undermine the
cause of justice.
How far will this riotous deviation from the
norm be allowed to go? Why is the Nigerian
government deliberately creating an
atmosphere in which the people themselves in
upholding democracy should find themselves
in a situation where they are faced with the
choice of resorting to self-help? Never in the
history of Nigeria have we had a challenged
judiciary as we currently do; and, in truth,
the challenge to self-correct and remedy
itself is entirely its and to its advantage.
In the entire travesty that Nigeria has
become, one thing has become clear, in
rewarding corruption as in the case of Mr.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, he has been
empowered to expand on his enterprise and
the unfortunate consequence is that this
path can only lead to the destruction of our
most cherished values as a people if allowed
to fester. Nigerians must take back their
country or there shall be none in no time.

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People can lie

We know

People can tell lie

Where is the exposure ?

Crap

Oga see.. . Wike and his lawyers...nailed them selfs.. . Am an engineer but I can see that there approach for the case was wrong. .. it was a sure lost battle.
APC have super good lawyers and there case was proved beyond reasonable doubt.. .. If u read the judgement u can also see that
.. Expect u are blind or corrupted u can't rule In favour of wike in that case
.. believe me u.. Even his wife won't rule in his favour in thus case

Nothing to argue about, that's politics @ least we all see what wike did during the days his GOD father is on power, that's Karma

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To me, all these nullifications go to show that Jega (formal INEC) boss scammed us. He is as corrupt as any other politician in Nigeria