Indigenes of Imo State under the aegis of Concerned Imo citizens on Wednesday staged another protest calling on the Supreme Court justices to as a matter of urgency review and reverse its January 14, 2020 judgement which sacked Emeka Ihedioha and declared Hope Uzodinma as governor of the state.
They described the ruling as the height of injustice to the people of the state.
Earlier, attempts by some political thugs to prevent the protesters from coming out of the Ugwu Ekwema hall along the Egbu road where they had assembled, by making a bonfire with tyres were rebuffed as they were chased away and their burning tyres extinguished by the protesters to make way for motorists.
Convener of the Concerned Imo citizens, Kingsley Onwubiko who addressed the protesters noted that the Supreme Court judgement which had declared Senator Hope Uzodinma as the governor had not only destabilised the state but brought sadness and agony to the entire people as the mandate freely given to Ihedioha had been snatched.
He said that the people will continue to protest until the justices of the apex court did the right thing by setting aside their judgment.
Onwubiko spoke further: “We are here today to continue with the protest against the injustice done to the people of the state. Since that unfortunate judgement by the justices of the Supreme Court on January 14, 2020, the state has been in distress because all development has stopped; even the investors that had come to the state as well as development partners have all left.
“We are protesting because what the Supreme Court judgement did was to unjustly sack our liberator who liberated the state from Iberiberism and restored the pride of the people. So, we are asking the apex court to speedily review and reverse the mistake which it made by declaring a man who had finished fourth as governor of the state,” maintaining that doing so will “save the people of the state from further agony and disillusionment as well as to restore the confidence of the people of Nigeria and in the judiciary.”
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Onwubiko maintained that the Supreme Court having realised its mistake should do the needful by restoring the Emeka Ihedioha who has the mandate of Imo people.”
Also, popular musician and the convener of OUR MUMU DON Do, Mr. Charles Oputa (Charly Boy) said that Imo people were not satisfied with the apex court’s judgement which he said was a miscarriage of justice and appealed to the justices of the Supreme Court to correct their mistake.
“There has been a miscarriage of justice and we are pleading that the Supreme Court should look into that mistake and see how to correct it. There is so much injustice going on in Nigeria and part of the responsibility of government is to take care of its citizens but what you see is systematic endemic injustice and we must fight it.”
He said that the justices of the apex court as humans are liable to make a mistake and that having realised their mistakes, they have no other option but to correct same.
“I have come here today because Imo State belongs to all of us and we will not allow anybody to poke his fingers into our eyes.
“My late father had always told me to fight against injustice where ever it rears its ugly head and that is where I am here today. So we appeal to the honourable justices of the Supreme Court to reverse the unfortunate mistake which is what the Imo people are asking for.”