The All Progressives Congress(APC) governorship candidate in the 2015 elections in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike met some judges of the Supreme Court in Imo State, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, before the 27th January 2016 judgement that upheld his election. Peterside made this allegation while addressing a press conference in Port Harcourt yesterday. According to him,“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 (February 7). He obviously stunned his audience and the watching world when he confessed that when it came to judges, Dr. Peter Odili and his wife, Justice Mary Odili (a Justice of the Supreme Court) were his advisers.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 legalize electoral violence and rigging and, in turn, reward injustice. This calls for serious introspection by our judiciary and judicial officers.”
