10 Dead Judges Among Newly Appointed Election Petition Tribunals’ Members

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By Idongesit Ashameri

Uyo – Lawyers in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom
State capital, have alerted on the appointment of dead and retired
judges as members of the recently sworn-in 250 election tribunal
members.

The group of concerned lawyers who declined being
identified faulted the list of the recently sworn in 250-tribunal
members as parading over 10 names of dead and retired judges.

Though
admitting that this would not be the first time the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led government has displayed this level of “cluelessness and
carelessness in handling sensitive issues concerning Nigeria”, they
described a posthumous appointment of anyone for such sensitive role in
the country as burying Nigeria alive.

It could be recalled
that the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Mohammed on
Saturday, January 26 swore in 250 members of the election tribunals at
the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja.

This has continued to
generate heated criticisms by both members of the legal community and
social media users who have pointed to some Nigerians who have long been
dead and buried, but have posthumously made the list.

One of the lawyers who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity said that up to 10 judges in the list were dead.

He
identified some of the late appointees to include Justice Edemekong
Edemekong whose name appeared as number 58 on the list and declared that
the late Justice died since 2013. Another, Justice Chukwu, from Ebonyi
State and number 53 on the list, who was formerly of the Federal High
Court is also said to have been long dead.

The lawyer’s
revelation also indicated that Justice Stephen Okon, a retired Chief
Judge of Akwa Ibom State and justice Okoyo Essang (number 56), a retired
justice of the High Court in Akwa Ibom State, both made the list.

The
lawyers expressed concerns that if such errors could be spotted at a
glance on such a sensitive list and on the first official outing of the
new acting CJN, then Nigeria may be heading towards a doom.

“If
dead and retired men are to sit on our election petition tribunal, then
the APC-led federal government is out to drown this country and we
vehemently reject a list parading dead men as members of the tribunal,”
they said.

Source:- Independentng

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