BREAKING: New CJN appoints 10 dead, retired Judges to Election Tribunal

The names of about ten dead and retired judges appeared among the recently sworn-in 250 election tribunal members.

PoliticsNGR gathered from a report by Daily Independent about the inclusion of dead and retired judges in the list.

A group of concerned lawyers from Uyo, who declined being identified, faulted the list of the recently sworn in 250-tribunal members as parading over 10 names of dead and retired judges.

They admitted that this would not be the first time the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has displayed this level of “cluelessness and carelessness in handling sensitive issues concerning Nigeria.”


They described “a posthumous appointment of anyone for such sensitive role in the country as burying Nigeria alive.”

The new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Tanko Mohammed swore in 250 members of the election tribunals at the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja. It will be recalled that President Buhari suspended the CJN, Walter Onnoghen last week.

One of the lawyers told Daily Independent that up to 10 judges in the list were dead.

He named Justice Edemekong Edemekong whose name appeared as number 58 on the list and declared that the late Justice died since 2013.

Another, Justice Chukwu, from Ebonyi State and number 53 on the list, who was formerly of the Federal High Court, is also said to have been long dead.

The lawyer’s revelation also indicated that Justice Stephen Okon, a retired Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State and justice Okoyo Essang (number 56), a retired justice of the High Court in Akwa Ibom State, both made the list. Also another late Judge, Justice Ubiri was also appointed. PoliticsNGR learned that Ubiri was buried at Usiefurun, Ughelli South, Delta in 2017.


The lawyers expressed concerns that if such errors could be spotted at a glance on such a sensitive list and on the first official outing of the new acting CJN, then Nigeria may be heading towards doom.

“If dead and retired men are to sit on our election petition tribunal, then the APC-led federal government is out to drown this country and we vehemently reject a list parading dead men as members of the tribunal,” they said.


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BREAKING: APC planning to forcefully takeover National Assembly tomorrow – CUPP


The National Assembly will be reconvening tomorrow to discuss the controversial suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Below is a statement made available to PoliticsNGR signed by the National Spokesperson of the CUPP, Ikenga Ugochinyere;

“APC GOVT PLOTTING VIOLENT TAKEOVER OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON TUESDAY, 29TH JANUARY, 2019

.SARAKI, EKWEREMADU, DOGARA, DINO TO BE ARRESTED BY MONDAY MIDNIGHT.

.APC HAVE PERFECTED PLOT TO ANNOUNCE FACTIONAL NASS LEADERSHIP ON TUESDAY.

.MUHAMMADU BUHARI LED APC FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GOING FOR THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA

. SEN.AHMED LAWAN, HOPE UZODIMMA, GODSWILL AKPABIO TO BE ANNOUNCED AS FACTIONAL SENATE PRESIDENT, DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT AND SENATE LEADER

.GBAJABIAMILA, ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN TO BE ANNOUNCED AS FACTIONAL SPEAKER, DEPUTY SPEAKER

.BUHARI LED APC HAS GIVEN GO AHEAD NOD

.ALI NDUME, OMO-AGEGE, GEORGE AKUME, HOPE, LAWAN, ABDULLAHI ADAMU ARE ARROWHEADS

. SOME SENATORS RECEIVING $70, 000 AND HOUSE MEMBERS RECEIVING $40, 000 FOR ‘WELFARE’ TO JOIN IN THE MOVE

.SARAKI, DOGARA, EKWEREMMADU, LASUN, MURRAY-BRUCE, MELAYE TO BE STOPPED FROM ACCESSING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON TUESDAY

.CALLS ON NIGERIANS TO RISE UP NOW, BE VIGILANT AND DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

The CUPP is once again raising alarm having received incontrovertible facts over a fresh plot that has been hatched and which has received the go-ahead nod of President Muhammadu Buhari led APC govt for a violent, undemocratic, unlawful, illegal and demonic takeover of the leadership of both Chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday, 29th January, 2019. The APC led Federal government are of the firm belief that Tuesday is their best and last chance to effect the changes as their control of the judiciary will be put to use to ensure there is no reversal of justice for the present occupants. The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday to discuss the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The APC is ready to do whatever it takes to destroy the very fulcrum of our constitutional democracy on Tuesday and have vowed, it is tomorrow or never. The judicial coup which they believed was supposed to be more difficult went very easily beyond their imagination hence the need to complete the takeover of the National Assembly immediately so that the distraction of the election campaigns will be put to use. They have also resolved that the government will make some big positive announcements tomorrow being Monday, 28th January so as to deflect the minds of Nigerians. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Chibuike Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola have been saddled with the responsibility of choosing the issue for announcement by the government.

The plot will see the criminal announcement of Sen. Ahmed Lawan as the Senate President, Sen. Hope Uzodimma as the Deputy Senate President and Sen. Godswill Akpabio as the Senate Leader. While in the House of Representatives, Hon Gbajabiamila will be announced as the Speaker of the House and Hon Abdulmimin Jibril will be announced as the Deputy Speaker. The decision on who will be the House leader will be resolved by the trio of Bola Tinubu, Adams Oshiomhole and Sen. Gorge Akume.

The arrowheads of this treasonable plot in the National Assembly include Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Ali Ndume, George Akume and Kabiru Gaya. While the members of the House who are part of this plot to destroy democracy include Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, Hon. Abdulmumin Jubril and Hon. Agbonayima.

To ensure the plot goes successfully, the Federal Government has mapped out the sum of $70, 000 for each Senator and $40, 000 for each House member for what it called welfare since majority of them will be compelled to be in town suddenly. The money for the bribes has already been released to Senator Lawan and Hon. Gbajabiamila for onward distribution to their members as they return. The money amounting to $15million ($8million for the House and $7 million for the Senate) was sourced from NNPC, CBN, NDDC, NPA, NIMASA, a commercial bank and a company the owner of whom is a member of the cabal.

Nigerians are hereby put on notice that these coupists are plotting that Sen. Saraki, the Senate President, Sen Ike Ekweremmadu the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ben Bruce and Sen. Dino Melaye, Biodun Olujimi, Hon. Dogara, Kingsley Chinda, Nnena Ukeje among others would be stopped by security agents from gaining entrance into the National Assembly. Thugs have been mobilized from Plateau, Kwara and Kogi to mount protest at the gates of the National assembly and have the approval to attack and disperse any group that comes to hold a counter rally.”

You mean 10 lifeless judges were recently appointed?