The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the verdict of the Supreme Court on the review of its judgment on the Imo state governorship election.
It faulted the judgment of the apex court in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
The party described the judgment as “a disconcerting endorsement of electoral fraud,” saying it has placed a huge burden on the court and the justices.
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by Emeka Ihedioha, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 Imo State governorship election.
In the suit, Ihedioha asked the apex court to review its judgment which sacked him as the governor of the state.
A seven-man panel of judges led by Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad presided over the majority judgment yesterday in Abuja.
Six of the judges on the panel agreed with the apex court’s verdict while Justice Chima Nweze gave a dissenting judgment, stressing that the decision ought to be reviewed.
The Federal Government has said that the latest recovered tranche of the funds looted by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has yet to be repatriated to Nigeria.
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami made this known in a statement in reaction to a claim by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party that the recovered loot had been looted.
The minister had on February 4, 2020, on behalf of the Federal Government, signed a tripartite agreement between the United States of America and the Island of New Jersey for the repatriation of $300m of the abacha Loot.
But controversy has continued to trail the discovered loot following Bloomberg’s report of a claim by the US that the Federal Government was planning to hand over about $100m out of the money to Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced a former Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, to seven years in prison.
Metuh who was found guilty yesterday of all charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was also to return N375m to government.
Justice Okon Abang convicted him in a ruling on the N400m fraud case brought against him by the EFCC shortly after the PDP lost power in 2015.
The EFCC charged Metuh, who is standing trial alongside his company, Destra investment, with seven counts of money laundering and criminal diversion of said fund which he received from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
He said the former PDP spokesman lacked any documentary evidence to show that former President Jonathan authorized the release of N400m purportedly for security reasons without a contractual agreement.
Lawyers to Olisah Metuh and his company, Destra investment were disappointed with the ruling.
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