Remove, probe Justice Okon Abang for judicial rascality – PDP youths beg NJC

Following the ruling of Justice Okon Abang, which sacked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Caretaker Committee led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, youths of the party have called for the removal of the Federal High Court judge. The youths, under the aegis of Peoples Democratic Party National Youth Forum, PDPNYF, urged the National Judicial Council, NJC, to as a matter of “urgency” remove the judge and further “probe him for judicial rascality.”

Juatice Okon Abang

Aside ruling that the Makarfi-led committee was illegal and could not conduct any function on behalf of the party, Justice Abang also barred the caretaker committee from conducting the National Convention slated for August 17 in Port Harcourt. The committee has however insisted on proceeding with the convention.

The National Coordinator of PDPNYF, Usman Austin, while reacting to the pronouncement of the judge in a statement, also appealed to the immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, to mediate in the crisis currently bedeviling the opposition party.

According to the statement, “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. “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 judgements 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.”