PDP Youths ‘Attack’ High Court Judge For Stopping National Convention

The youth wing of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a verbal attack on presiding judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Okon Abang following his ruling on Thursday which stopped the holding of the party’s August 19 National Convention.
The Peoples Democratic Party National Youth Forum (PDPNYF), in a blistering statement released to the media on Friday, accused the judge of having a sinister motive as far as the affairs of the PDP are concerned.
The youths therefore called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to call Abang to order so as to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy against his ‘judicial rascality’.
“The judiciary must not be a place where anyone runs into and hide his misdeed, it is now clear that justice Okon Abang has turn his own arm of judiciary to be a rubber stamp for anyone who can afford the bid,” National Coordinator of the PDPNYF, Usman Austin said in a statement.
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“We ask all concern sundries to wave into this judicial rascality exhibited by Justice Okon Abang before it eats deep into the marrows of our democracy, he is not only a threat to democracy but also a threat to human right and stain to the bench.
“PDP is a family and each time it has internal misunderstanding the said justice Okon Abang dives in to set fire on a fresh wood, it is alarming how much interest he picks on matter that concerns the PDP.
“The manner and mode in which judgments are obtained from justice Okon Abang is an abuse to constitutional rights… it is very unfortunate, the same he did in the Abia governorship election case. We totally say no to this act of using his office to stain the countries judiciary and making it a laughing stock.
“We therefore call on the National judicial council to as a matter of urgency remove Justice Okon Abang and further probe his ill judicial rascality and constitutional doctoration to save our judiciary as well democracy.
“The PDP youth are as a matter of urgency call on concerned advisory bodies like President Gooduck Jonathan to come into this lingering matter and save this party from the hands of scoundrels who seek to shortchange it for their self-interest.”
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The youths’ words are an echo of that of the party’s national body, which, in a statement signed by chief spokesperson of the Ahmed-Markafi-led national caretaker committee that was declared illegal by Justics Abang on Thursday, described the ruling as “objectionable, questionable and very strange to say the least in the history of Nigeria Judiciary”.