Integrity Group Urges Action Against Appeal Court Justice … As APC Kicks

The All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Rivers State and the Integrity Group, a Non Governmental Organisation  are in war of words over the group’s call for the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa.
The Integrity Group, in a statement signed by its executive director, Livingstone Wechie, had in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, also demanded the suspension of three other Appeal Court judges appointed by Bulkachuwa into a panel to hear the bail application of Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, who is standing trial for murder.
Wechie said, “This singular act of the Appeal Court President is the height of judicial commercialization, interest and show of political partisanship in Nigeria and so we have petitioned the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria and the National Judicial Council insisting on the dissolution of the hatchet Panel while we commence necessary legal steps to rescue the judiciary from the endangerment of this bad arrangement.”
But, in a swift reaction, the APC, in a statement by the secretary of its Media and Publicity Committee, Hon. Godstime Orlukwu, described Wechie as a businessman, who should stop insulting the sensibilities of the people of the state.
Orlukwu said, “I think Mr. Livingstone Wechie is beginning to take Rivers people for a ride for too long. He is a businessman, yes, working for what to eat. But, must we continue to insult our sensibilities each time he wants to extort some money from the government.”