BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK DEC 21, 2015
Court Of Appeal President Sacks Panel Of Judges Over Corruption In Delta Case, Appoints New Judges

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, sacked and replaced the five man panel of judges handling the April 11, 2015 Delta State governorship election at the Court of Appeal, in Benin city following cases of alleged corruption, compromise, and abuse of office leveled against the judges.

The governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emerhor Otega, and the Labour Party (LP) Great Ogboru, dragged Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Appeal Court, urging it to set aside of the decision of the Justice N.U. Gummi led Governorship Election Tribunal, which declared Governor Okowa the winner of the governorship election.

The sacked corrupt and compromised judges whose names were are Justice J.O. Bada, Justice P.M. Ekpe, Justice H.A. Barka, Justice M.N. Oniyiangi, and Justice U.A. Ogakwu. The names of the new judges included Justice Mrs Uwani Abba-Aji (Chairman), Justice Tom Yakubu, Justice Mhd Danjuma, Justice I.O. Akeju, and Justice (Mrs) Bolaji-Yusuf.

According to Court of Appeal sources who confided in SaharaReporters, the corrupt and compromised judges were sacked last week and the newly appointed judges to handle the governorship appeal case resumed office last Monday.

SaharaReporters learned that judgement for the Delta State governorship case has been reserved for this week on Tuesday or Wednesday.

At the time of filing this report, tension is said to have gripped the camp of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the PDP.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/21/court-appeal-president-sacks-panel-judges-over-corruption-delta-case-appoints-new-judges

Kudos to the President of Court Of Appeal.

Hmmmmmmm

My submission on an earlier thread:

I guess this is to circumvent the charade
that influenced the tribunal decision.
O God! Let the wind of fortune settle on my
state for once. Just once! We've been held
down for so long, for too long.
Haba!

It is always easy to predict reason(s) for such election anomalies where Delta state is in focus.
The state appears immuned to positive changes. It is known for elevating social deviants and sycophants onto leadership platform.
O Lord, where are thou?

The sacked corrupt and compromised judges must face trial. Thank God I voted for Buhari. All I want is a working system. PDP be like why always us....ayam happy seeing PDP going solo.

New sheriff in town,not business usual

Nonsense!!! You only sack judges handling cases that PDP has more chances of winning.keep wasting your oil states will never go for APC!

after the sack the subsequent judgement will simply favour APC and then jit will become good development for democracy.

mazzi:
Nonsense!!! You only sack judges handling cases that PDP has more chances of winning.keep wasting your oil states will never go for APC!

Are you a Deltan?
If not, I will advise you don't sow on what you don't own.