Justice Abang should be kicked out for his ‘Jankara’ judgements –Fayose

Following the victory of Abia State’s governor, Okezie Ikpeazu at the Supreme Court in his case with Uchechukwu Ogah, Ekiti State’s Governor Ayodele Fayose has called for the immediate sack of a Federal High Court judge, Justice Okon Abang.

Abang had, while presiding over the case at the Abuja Federal High Court on June 27, 2016, sacked Ikpeazu and instructed the state Chief Judge to swear in Ogah as the state’s governor.

However both the Appeal Court and Friday’s Supreme Court judgment upheld Ikpeazu as the authentic governor of Abia State, sacking Abang’s earlier judgement.

Fayose, who is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum chairman, in his reaction to the ruling described the Supreme Court judgment on the 2015 Abia State governorship election as victory for Ikpeazu and shame to Justice Abang.

The governor in a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, demanded for the immediate sack of Abang for his notorious “Jankara” and “Oluwole” judgments.

He said, “Your Excellency must do more than ever before to make a difference in the lives of your people. You must continue to put a wide gap between your good self and the political charlatans who have now got to their tether’s end.

“The Supreme Court, where they have now failed, is the last bus stop for them. They also failed at the Court of Appeal.

“It is instructive that the only court where your opponents won was at the high court of Justice Okon Abang, who has become notorious for ‘Jankara’ and ‘Oluwole’ judgments.

“It is a shame that a man like Abang, who has been roundly lampooned again and again by his colleagues and superiors as a disgrace to the Bench, still answers the name of a judge and continues to sit on the Bench.

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“He should be kicked out without delay. His peers and superiors have told us times without number that Abang dispenses injustice. His pronouncements, rulings and judgments have variously been described by fellow judges as a travesty of justice. What is such a man still doing on the Bench?

“I make bold to say that Abang is not fit to be in the Judiciary system again. The Court of Appeal in the Ikpeazu case, apart from laughing Abang to scorn for constituting himself into the state Tax board, also described his judgment as ‘a rape of democracy’”.

Adding that rape is a very serious offence, Fayose said that a serial offender like Abang must not be allowed to continue to escape justice.

“A judge adjudged by fellow judges as having committed ‘great violence against one of the pillars of our criminal justice’ has outlived his usefulness on the Bench”, he said.

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