CUPP Alleges Plot To Rig S/Court Panel On Presidential Election Appeal

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Coalition of United Political Partes, CUPP, has accused the Muhammadu Buhari administration of plotting to handpick the seven justices to serve as members of the Presidential Election Petition Appeal.

CUPP noted that it would resist the alleged ongoing plot to select the seven judges without recourse to the age long tradition of picking the most senior justices.

The coalition in press conference on Thursday, in Abuja by its  National Publicity Secretary, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere noted that they are waiting for the composition of the names of the 7-man panel by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, stressing that the opposition will not accept handpicked selection of judges.

Ugochinyere  noted that “By the provisions of the 4th alteration of the 1999 constitution as amended, the Supreme Court of Nigeria has 60 days from the date of the filing of the Notice of Appeal. These processes have kick-started and everyone is awaiting the composition of the names of the 7 man panel by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

“We have it on good authority that the All Progressives Congress APC-led Federal govt has been mounting undue pressure on the Chief Justice of the Federation and indeed the entire court to accept a handpicked panel and jettison the age-long tradition of the Court of selecting the most senior justices of the Supreme Court to sit on the panel.

“The disquiet and bad blood caused by the APC in the Supreme Court now is a clear desecration of the highest temple of justice in the land. The opposition and most Nigerians will not accept a handpicked panel neither will the pronouncement of such panel command the requite respect and confidence of the people of Nigeria and we in the opposition.

“Gentlemen, the Supreme Court is for the people, the last hope of the judiciary. The actions of the Supreme Court must inspire national confidence and deliver not just judgment but justice and that path to justice is not only about the law but about the ordinary man believing that justice has been done.”

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