By Victor Otigbu

UMUAHIA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former special assistant to Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Mr. Ben Onyechere has described the judgment by the Appeal Court on Abia governorship election as a close reminder of what transpired during the reign of Justice Salami in which states were freely awarded to a party of his choice without recourse to judicial decorum.

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According to him, that trend seemed like cancer until it was nipped in the bud.

He said: “The sensibility of people of Nigeria have in the recent past been set aghast by the delusional sentiment of political considerations associated with such judicial partisanship. That judgement was an affront against the Ngwa people who were unpretentious about their voting pattern in the last election.

“In civilized climes, such judgments which are inconsiderate of the defenseless masses who had come out to exercise their right of citizenship should have been probed.

“The judiciary in this digital era can no longer be made to look like an Okija shrine where the priests are probably infallible but must be made to live up to their bidding which is primarily as the last hope of helpless masses and not as an instrument of denial and intimidation.”