CONGRESS FOR PROGRESSIVE CHANGE (CPC).
PRESS RELEASE.
RE: STATEGIC MEETING OF MOBILIZING FOR 2015-NEED TO SEAL UP THE JUDICIAL ANGLE…… OUR REBUTTAL!
Our attention has been drawn to the Advertorials by a faceless group-COALITION FOR INTEGRITY- in Leadership Newspaper of Monday, 28th May, 2012 and This day Newspaper of Thursday, 31st May, 2012. Therein, a purported internal Memo from one Hon. Hakeem Bello to the Lagos Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN was published.
In the said Memo, it was reported that a political meeting was held between CPC and ACN with some eminent Nigerians in attendance. It was further alleged that at this meeting, the plan was hatched to influence the National Judicial Commission (NJC) on behalf of Justice Ayo Salami with a view to recalling him to his former position as President, Court of Appeal (PCA).
We deem it fitting and proper to rebut the tissues of lies contained in these publications. There was no time this meeting ever took place. Though as a Party, we have always believed that constitutional order was jettisoned in the suspension of Justice Ayo Salami was done, we have never, at any time, been involved in any subterranean action to corruptly influence the NJC. This is indeed a botched Propagandist scheme to delude the unsuspecting Nigerian public. This is another manifestation of the recklessness and degenerative extent this administration (at the Federal level) can get, in using deliberate mendacity, for hollow political end. This is iniquitous, ludicrous and truculent piece of hogwash!
It would be recalled that since the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Muhammed Uwais, gave an informed opinion on the Constitutional powers of the NJC in suspension and recall of any Judicial Officer without Presidential approval, the ruling PDP had been seeking for ways to extirpate that position.
First, they justified their arbitrariness in this matter by latching on to this-matter-is-in-court straw of hope. With the matter thrown out, that explained this desperation in concocting an imaginary meeting to deviously create an unwholesome relationship between Justice Ayo Salami and notable opposition parties. However, we urge the members of the NJC to treat this despicable Memo with the ignominy that it deserves and do Justice as they see it without fear or favor!
Finally, we hereby use this medium to appeal to the media, as the sacred duty to the Nigerian state, in not allowing any of the numerous proxies of this administration, masquerading as patriotic groups, in sowing combustible and insidious materials for the ultimate end of causing mass disaffection in the polity.
God bless Nigeria.
Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC.
(Monday, 4th May, 2012).
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