Ebenezer Babatope, former Minister of Transport and Prince Ifagbemi Awamaridi, Lagos State governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the last election, have faulted the constitution of the Supreme Court Justices for the Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the Appeal Court’s judgment on the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC).
Babatope had in a chat with NEXT EDITION on Tuesday, stated that it was worrisome what had become of Nigeria’s judicial system, maintaining that the nation’s judiciary had been debased, raped, dehumanised and needed to be revolutionised for the system to work again.
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The former minister said he did not have confidence in what the justices would do, stressing that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed, and those that had chosen to debase the judiciary, should go ahead and do what they had planned to do.
He pointed out that everyone was watching, including the international community, stressing that a day of judgment was coming.
In a related development, Prince Ifagbemi, while talking to NEXT EDITION on Tuesday, said he was not surprised with the selection of the eight Justices of Supreme Court, who he said, were handpicked, against the normal selection on seniority basis.
He maintained that with the suspicious way in which Walter Onnoghen, former CJN was removed, it would be a mirage for anyone to think that something good would ever come out of the nation’s judiciary, pointing out that he had since resigned to fate that the election petition cases would never be fair.
Ifagbemi, a lawyer lamented that he did not know what miracle would happen to make the APC government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, do the right thing, by at least allowing the independence of the judiciary.
He said it would be foolishness for anyone to think that the CJN would take any decision that would work against Buhari’s interest, who he referred to as his benefactor.
The politician stated that a close look at the mess in the country would suggest that only force would probably correct the ills perpetuated by the government of the day, but lamented that Nigerians adapt easily to adverse circumstances, unlike what obtained elsewhere, and rather than fight back when pushed to the wall, Nigerians would break the wall for survival.
