The Imo Diaspora Coalition for Justice and Democracy has recommended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad and six other justices of the Supreme court of Nigeria who determined the Imo governorship petition at the Supreme court last week for Visa ban by the United State and for the International No-Fly list.
This was contained in a recent petition by the group to President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the United States of America expressing its grievances over the alleged miscarriage and the desecration of the temple of justice.
The petition which has garnered over 400 signatories listed Justice Kudrat Kekere–Ekun, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, Justice Aminu Sanusi, Justice Amina Augie, and Justice Uwani Abba-Aji for sanction.
The group also recommended members of their immediate families for the international travel ban.
The petition read in part: “Nigeria’s disgraceful partisan Supreme Court justices must reverse her recent perverted ruling or be placed on visa ban or no-fly list, including members of their immediate families.”
“In what has been described a ‘judicial coup’, the Supreme Court of Nigeria overturned the landslide Imo State Governorship electoral mandate, given to Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and handed victory to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Party candidate, Hope Uzodinma, who came a distant fourth position in the election.”
The group noted that in a haste to declare the ruling party candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma winner in the said election, the Supreme Court Justices ‘forgot simple Arithmetic’.
“When that whole fake results were added without adjustment to other figures, it brought the total votes cast to 928,054 , which is not only higher than INEC declared total valid votes cast of 714,355 but total number of accredited voters of 823,743 for the election. Yet, the Supreme Court in a bizarre judgment awarded more votes to the fourth placed candidate, that inflated total votes cast above the number of voters, and made him winner”, the petition read.
The group argued that the Nigerian legal system allows for Supreme Court to reverse itself in certain circumstances including where the judgment was obtained by fraudulent representations and therefore called on the Supreme court to review and reverse their decision, ‘within ten days, or be sanctioned alongside their immediate families with visa ban and/or put on international No-fly list’.
Some of the signatories to the petition include Eddie Oparaoji, Matthew Mbanaja, Chijike Ndukwu, Chiwuikem Ihediwa, and Adaugo Vivian Agwuocha.
