S’Court Decides Rivers’ APC Primaries Logjam under the Gun Friday

The Supreme Court is to finally resolve the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries logjam tomorrow as it delivers its judgement on an appeal brought before it by parties in the protracted conflict, THISADY learnt last night.

The judgement, which had been reserved indefinitely on Monday, apparently because of the impending arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) for alleged non-declaration of assets, would be delivered against the background, of what legal analysts described as concealed intimidation of the judiciary by the APC-led federal government.

Analysts that spoke to THISDAY last night were emphatic that there was a nexus between the Rivers State appeal case and Onnoghen’s travails, pointing out that statute and case law were very clear about the effect of admission of error in assets declaration, contending that once infraction is accepted by a public officer, recourse to the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) would become spent.

THISDAY, January 24, 2019

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