Judiciary Slams Supreme Court’s Critics …As PDP Blasts Peterside

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (right), welcoming a member of the Governing Council of Jewel of Africa, Senator Grace Folashade Bent (left) and Chairman of the Governing Council, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, during a courtesy call on the Vice President by the members of the council to the Presidential Villa in Abuja, yesterday.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed has rejected recent criticisms of the Nigerian judiciary as being corrupt.
The CJN made the position of the judiciary known at the valedictory court session held in honour of a retiring Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Muhammad Muntaka-Coomassie in Abuja.
The CJN said those criticising recent decisions of the Supreme Court are misguided and are ignorant of how the judiciary works.
He said the judiciary is duty bound to act in accordance with the dictates of the law and not as critics would like it to be.
For his part, the President of the  Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Augustine Alegeh condemned what he termed “generalization and categorization” of the judiciary as corrupt and a stumbling block to the Buhari administration’s war against corruption.
He pledged the support of the bar to resist any attempt to intimidate or harass judicial officers.
The NBA President, however, warned “the few bad eggs in the system” to desist from engaging in their embarrassing acts or be ready to face petitions which the NBA  would start filing against such judicial officers.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned  the defeated candidate of the All Progressives Congress,  Dr. Dakuku Adol’ Peterside on his comments and level of  disrespect accorded the office of the Governor of the State, Chief Nyesom Wike.
In a statement signed  the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Jerry Needam to the Rivers PDP Chairman, Brother Felix Obuah said despite the glamour that characterizes the game of politics, it still has a bitter side no doubt.
He explained that this bitter side are the pains and regrets that follow losing the election, reminding him that nobody goes into any election to lose but one thing is certain. There must be a loser no matter the degree of optimism.
According to him, “while the winner smiles home with victory, the loser shies away like an accused sentenced for a guilt never committed. The winner however, is expected to be magnanimous in victory while the loser notwithstanding the pain of his loss is expected to exhibit the spirit of sportsmanship since there is always a second chance or another opportunity.
Obua in the statement regrettable that the 2015 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress had described Governor Wike as infantile, insulting the governor at the slightest opportunity unrestrained and uncaptioned.