Nyesom Wike: Did he have foreknowledge of Supreme court decision?

Dr Dakuku Peterside, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, has questioned the fairness of the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed the election of Governor Nyesom Wike.

He said Wike had a foreknowledge of the judgment going by his actions and utterances before and after the verdict.A similar charge has been made by Akwa Ibom APC against Senator Godswill Akpabio on the outcome of the Akwa Ibom Election appeal at the same court. The ruling favoured the PDP governor, Udom Emmanuel.

The Supreme Court gave its decision on the Rivers governorship election on January 27, promising to make the reasons known later.

Peterside said that some of Wike’s actions and statements before and after the judgment are indicative of his foreknowledge of the judgment.

Dakuku Peterside: a serious accusation

“Credible information confirmed that Nyesom Wike had earlier confessed to some persons of having met one of the Justices of the Supreme Court in Mbaise during an important burial, another at Owerri in a hotel and yet others in Dubai and Saudi Arabia respectively. These Justices were in the panel that decided the matter in Wike’s favour.

“However, the most striking revelation by Nyesom Wike is contained in his account at the thanksgiving service last Sunday. He obviously stunned his audience and the watching world when he confessed that when it came to the Judges, Dr. Peter Odili and the wife Justice Mary Odili (a Justice of the Supreme Court) were his advisers.

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“This simply confirmed his earlier statements that he had contact with the Justices after several attempts to reach the Chief Justice of the country failed.It is therefore obvious that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Rivers State Election was not a product of justice but rather a product of compromise and orchestrated contrivance to legalise electoral violence and rigging and, in turn, reward injustice. This calls for serious introspection by our Judiciary and judicial officers.

“For the records, in his speech at the church service, Governor Nyesom Wike probably forgot that he was on live telecast when he stated: ‘Let me thank our former governor, Dr. Peter Odili (husband of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili). He will call me midnight to tell me what to do….he will say ‘go to so so place.’ I took all his advice, and here we are today’.

“This shocking confession needs no further explanation, except for you and other decent Nigerians to further make your fair conclusions.”

Peterside added that also at the thanksgiving service, Wike said as a result of the the judgment , “the apex court helped in preventing bloodshed in Rivers State.”

”Blood would have flowed if the election was going to hold again….So, I called some people, including the Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus, that I was not going to run again. They said why and I explained that if I did, many people would die.”

He added that “these voluntary confessions made by Governor Nyesom Wike confirm beyond doubt that he was obviously behind the orgy of violence during the last elections”.

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