Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the judiciary to not put Rivers State on fireplace, by the Wednesday’s judgement of the Abuja Federal Excessive Court docket order, stopping the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from releasing allocation to River State.
Atiku in an announcement by his media adviser Paul Ibe, famous that Rivers State accounts for nearly 25 p.c of Nigeria’s oil belongings, puzzled why Justice Joyce Abdulmalik might problem the order when it was public information that Rivers State had already challenged the Court docket of Appeal’s judgement on the legality of Rivers State’s 2024 funds.
Based on him, the judgement was meant to undermine the Supreme Court docket.
He regretted that Nigeria courts are “enjoying a extra ignoble position in fostering political crises inside political events and even in states, and counseled the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, for summoning judges sitting on the Rivers State circumstances.
Atiku nonetheless, referred to as on the the CJN to make sure that these discovered wanting had been disciplined with a purpose to restore the fading glory of God the judiciary.
“From the emirship tussle in Kano State to the Rivers imbroglio the place courts are going so far as stopping elections from holding, taking Nigeria again to the darkish days of June 12, 1993, the place polls had been annulled,” he noticed.
The previous vp stated Nigeria has descended into the theatre of the absurd because the inception of the Bola Tinubu administration.
“Sadly, below the management of those that declare to have fought for Nigeria’s democracy, the nation is descending into chaos with conflicting orders from courts of coordinate jurisdiction flying in all places whereas judges are being induced within the title of empowerment and provision of homes.
“The result’s that Nigerians are step by step dropping confidence in an establishment which prides itself because the final hope of the widespread man.
“International buyers will keep away from anyplace the place judgements will be purchased by the best bidder,” Atiku stated and warned that Nigeria shouldn’t be allowed to descend to the Hobessian state of nature “the place life is brief, nasty and brutish, the place residents go for self-help,” and referred to as on the Nigerian judiciary to revive its picture.
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