The Rivers Renaissance Forum (RRF) has uncovered a plot by the
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC and its governorship
candidate, Mr. Dakuku Peterside to present some bribed security agents as
witnesses in the ongoing election petition tribunal where the APC is
challenging the victory of Governor Nyesom Wike as the Governor of Rivers
State.
In their latest desperate move aimed at truncating the cause
of Justice at the tribunal, the APC and its candidate have concluded plans to
use some personnel of the Department of
State Services DSS, men of the Nigeria Police and some lawyers as fake
witnesses. In a meeting held at Royal Apartments, Area 1 extension, Garki Abuja
on Saturday 12th September, 2015, these men were gather for tutoring on how to
bear false witness before their Lordships sitting on the matter at the election
tribunal.
Under this latest plan, five Policemen, two DSS Personnel
and four Lawyers of the APC were assigned with various lies to be told before
the tribunal in the coming days. During the said meeting, one of the person in
attendance who was not comfortable with the process had voice recording of the
plans and this will be made public in due course to expose the evil plan
against the people of Rivers State.
With this, we thus put the Nigeria Bar Association and
Judicial Service Commission on notice to be vigilant and be prepared to take
disciplinary actions on the lawyers involved. By this, their will be the needed
sanity within the law practitioners and repose of confidence in them as well.
This alarm becomes imperative considering the desperation of
the APC to unlawfully manipulate the judicial process with the intent of
hijacking the mandate freely given by the good people of Rivers State to
Goveronr Nyesom Wike during the last governorship election in the State.
As we have always done, we hereby want to call on President
Muhammadu Buhari to call the actors in the Rivers APC to order and prevent this
latest attempt to corrupt the judicial process and manipulate the rule of law.
The people of Rivers have spoken and we believe that the
judiciary without undue interference will serve justice to all parties in the
election dispute and any attempt therefore to allow the legitimate process will
be resisted by the good people of our dear State.
We shall not be discouraged.
Adaye J. Emmanuel,
Coordinator
Rivers Renaissance Forum (RRF)
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