Charly68:
Don't mind the judge,he didn't talk since then,now that APC Govt is after him,he is weeping up sentiment. But it is disastrous for the judiciary to land in this such of public opprobrium because of some black sheep in the family

kahal29:
Inyang Okoro is liar he even alleged in the said letter that Amaechi asked him to swing judgment in favour of the APC candidate in Abia state, Dr Anyim Nyerere while infact Abia State had no APC case at the supreme court.

https://www.nairaland.com/3416640/justice-inyang-okoro-lied-reference

FagsamPHP:
Why not sue him to court if you're sure he's lying? A whole Judge can't/wont come out with that kind of statement if you didn't tried to bribe him.... The judge might have truly collected a bribe tho, from the highest bidder... but saying you did'nt is rubbish.

ofuonyebi:
One issue is clear here..so, the Buhari fight against corrupt judges had been proved right...Justice Okoro had confessed that money

was brought to bribe him by Amechi & Umana..but he no collect the.. kudi...ego.. owo..yet him account is full of millions of dollar and

nairas how much be him sally for a month...year?...judge Okoro fumbled...as he think say the whole 9ja...mekunnus na mumu...why he

no shout ole!..ole!...alakoba... against umana and Amechi when dey brought the "Ghana-must-go" long time in 2015...only to wait until arrest..

Abeg go answer the EFCC and lets see what happens...na so Fayose your broda tell Nigerians say na lie EFCC dey talk...but now when dem put

'Koro" for cell..yawa don penme ..say nobi lie...koro don confess...too much jibiti and excuses for cover up..9ja don pass dat level..jooo
..

DONSMITH123:
The 2015 All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Umana Okon Umana, on Wednesday dismissed claim by one of the arrested judges, Justice John Okoro, saying he and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi attempted to bribe him.

Justice Okoro, one of the judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, recently, had alleged that he was being victimized over his refusal to do the bidding of the APC in the election appeal cases as it concerned Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia States

Reacting to Justice Okoro’s claim, Umana in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Iboro Otongaran said the judge concocted the lies to save himself the embarrassment of been arrested with inexplicable huge cash in local and foreign currencies.

Umana, now the Managing Director of Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority, insisted that he has never held any meeting with Justice Okoro, a judge of the Supreme Court for the purpose of compromising him to.

The full statement reads below:

“The attention of Mr Umana Okon Umana, Akwa Ibom APC governorship candidate in the 2015 election has been drawn to a letter purportedly written by Justice Inyang Okoro and addressed to the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria.

“In the said letter, Justice Okoro alleged without evidence that Umana visited his residence (Justice Okoro’s) and made a “request to help him win his appeal before the Supreme Court.”

“We would like to respond to Justice Okoro’s baseless allegation as follows:

“The meeting Justice Okoro is reporting is fiction. No such meeting to discuss how to bribe judges took place between him, Mr Umana Okon Umana and Dr (Pastor) Ebebe Ukpong as alleged.

“If we assume, without conceding, that such a meeting took place, for a man of Justice Okoro’s standing and knowledge of the law, he ought to have known the legal implications of such a visit, and should have reported it to appropriate authorities immediately. He did not do that, but he is only reacting after the authorities have established a case against him.

“Justice Okoro’s claim in his purported letter to the Hon. Chief Justice of Nigeria is therefore not only false, it is diversionary and an afterthought.

“Justice Okoro should address himself to the facts of the case, which is between him and the State, and leave Umana out of it.

“Contrary to Justice Okoro’s claim, Umana had no appeal before the Supreme Court arising from any court judgment on the 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State. Umana had won at the Court of Appeal and therefore was not and couldn’t have been an appellant at the Supreme Court. Umana had won both at the tribunal and at the Court of Appeal. He was therefore confident of victory at the Supreme Court because of the concurrent judgments of the lower courts.

“It would be recalled that after the Supreme Court judgment, which ignored the concurrent judgments of both the tribunal and the Court of Appeal, and also totally disregarded the reports of the international observers, including those of the United States Government and the European Union which stated that the elections in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states were marred by widespread violence and irregularities, Umana had issued a statement expressing disappointment at the verdict and said he had moved on and left everything in the hands of God. Umana should therefore be left alone.”

http://dailypost.ng/2016/10/19/arrest-judges-didnt-try-bribe-justice-okoro-lied-apc-guber-candidate-umana/

nicerichard05:
If he lied then sue him to court for defamation of character. mtchewwwwwww mumu man

The other room jail is where you belong


FTC

dancewith:
This is a pathetic defense. So a Supreme court Judge would single you and Amaechi out of over 170m Nigerians. You can lie all you want, afterall we as human, have no way of knowing if you lied or not. However you cannot lie to your conscience. But don't expect us to be ignorant of the fact that the Judge's raids and Arrests is not politically motivated

Enough already

veekid:
Umana is a bahd liar compare to OKORO the Badoo while amaechi is the baddest

kahal29:
Inyang Okoro is liar he even alleged in the said letter that Amaechi asked him to swing judgment in favour of the APC candidate in Abia state, Dr Anyim Nyerere while infact Abia State had no APC case at the supreme court.

https://www.nairaland.com/3416640/justice-inyang-okoro-lied-reference

vedaxcool:
“If we assume, without conceding, that such a meeting took place, for a man of Justice Okoro’s standing and knowledge of the law, he ought to have known the legal implications of such a visit, and should have reported it to appropriate authorities immediately. He did not do that, but he is only reacting after the authorities have established a case against him.



Okoros lies only makes sense to him, Umana tried to pervert the course of justice and okoro only response was a verbal report to the cjn... this sort of lies shows politicians have invaded the judiciary

hopilo:


He did, read his version.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
I guess you don't bother to read to the end, Umana won at the Tribunal and Appeal court, So tell why will he need to bribe the Supreme court again?

kahal29:
Inyang Okoro is liar he even alleged in the said letter that Amaechi asked him to swing judgment in favour of the APC candidate in Abia state, Dr Anyim Nyerere while infact Abia State had no APC case at the supreme court.

https://www.nairaland.com/3416640/justice-inyang-okoro-lied-reference

psucc:
Justice Okoro said Umana came to his house in company of Pastor Dr Ebebe Ukpong. If he lies, the pastor will tell the truth.

Abeg who get his phone number?

CioAngels:
Umana, governors and governors to be are great liars, umana must have been shocked stiffed for judge okoro to refuse to play the bribery game. Pastor, this is acid test for you, so lets see if you can afford to dent your image, thats if you have intergrity as a pastor. Please don't cover umana and destroy the respect you worked hard to earn over the years.