{"id":52407,"date":"2016-08-18T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=52407"},"modified":"2016-08-18T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:18:51","slug":"bribery-scandal-saved-gov-ikpeazu-sack-cjn-angry-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/bribery-scandal-saved-gov-ikpeazu-sack-cjn-angry-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bribery Scandal Saved Gov. Ikpeazu From Sack; CJN Angry With Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Pointblanknews.com<\/a> expose of a $4million bribe from Oil Baron,
\nChief Arthur Eze to Judges, the Appeal Court has reversed an earlier plan
\nto sack Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.<\/p>\n

An earlier report by Pointblanknews.com<\/a> had detailed how Chief Eze,
\nboasting of his ability to remove the Abia Governor, gave $4million in
\nbribes to High Court Judges, Appeal Court Judges and some senior Supreme
\nCourt Justices to remove Governor Ikpeazu whom he vowed to \u201cteach a
\nlesson\u201d for refusing to take his calls.<\/p>\n

The bribe money was routed through the duo of Hon. Adamu Mohammed
\nBulkachuwa, a former member of the House of Representative and husband of
\nthe President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Zainab Bulkachuwa and Justice
\nIbrahim Auta, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.<\/p>\n

While Hon. Bulkachuwa allegedly shared $200,000.00 from the $4million to
\n\u201ctake care\u201d of Appeal Court Judges, Justice Auta shared $200,000.00 to
\nJustice Okon Abang who delivered the High Court ruling sacking the Abia
\nGovernor, a source close to Chief Arthur Eze told Pointblanknews.com.<\/p>\n

Judicial sources told Pointblanknews.com that Pointblanknews.com expose
\nwas not taken lightly by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice
\nMahmud Mohammed who warned corrupt Judges of dire consequences.<\/p>\n

Justice Mohammed, according to our sources had expressed anger over series
\nof bribery allegations leveled against Judges, vowing to work with the
\nNational Judicial Council, NJC, to sack any Judge found to have
\ncompromised the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CJN is not a happy man at this time. He saw that report on the
\ninternet and immediately sent warnings to those involved. He is
\nparticularly angry that at a time when the country is waging war against
\ncorruption, some Judges are sabotaging the efforts,\u201d a senior Director at
\nthe Supreme Court told Pointblanknews.com.<\/p>\n

Pointblanknews.com<\/a> gathered that corruption among Judges have become a
\nthing of worry for the Chief Justice who has come under intense pressure
\nfrom President Mohammadu Buhari who have accused the Judiciary of
\ncolluding with politicians to derail the anti-Corruption fight.
\nBuhari had accused the Judiciary of slowing down his anti-corruption crusade.<\/p>\n

However, in a rare judicial volte-face, the Justice Helen Ogunwumiju-led
\nfive-man bench unanimously agreed in their judgment that Justice Abang
\nerroneously assumed jurisdiction to hear the motion and adjourned it till
\na later date.<\/p>\n

Justice Philomina Ekpe, who read the lead judgment, held that what Justice
\nAbang ought to have done in line with time-honoured doctrine of \u201cstari
\ndecisis\u201d was to have transferred the motion to the Court of Appeal for
\ndetermination.<\/p>\n

She also held that the Justice Abang wrongly interpreted the provisions of
\nOrder 4(10) and (11) of the Court of Appeal rules when he held that the
\nsaid provisions were only applicable to an interlocutory ruling of the
\nlower court and when a final judgment in a suit had been delivered.<\/p>\n

She also held that Justice Abang lacked jurisdictions to interpret the
\nprovisions of the Court of Appeal being the rules of a superior court.<\/p>\n

In her contribution, Justice Ogunwumiju, held that the trial judge
\n\u201cdeliberately stood the law on its head\u201d by justifying his jurisdiction to
\nhear the motion when appeal has been entered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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