On Sunday, the Ebonyi State Government stated that it has no intention of bribing the election petition tribunal judges in order to pervert the course of justice and gain undue favor from them.
The state government made this known through the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation, Jude Okpor, in response to an allegation made by Paschal Oluchukwu, president of the Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in Diaspora (AEISCID).
Trust News recalls Oluchukwu accusing the Ebonyi State Government, led by Governor Francis Nwifuru, of attempting to hijack the course of justice by attempting to bribe judges with one billion naira deducted from the local government area allocation in order to obtain a favorable verdict from the tribunal.
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He stated that Governor Nwifuru has no reason to be concerned about the outcome of the election tribunal proceedings because he was massively elected by the good people of Ebonyi State alongside other candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ebonyi State, he claims, has “never planned to bribe, either directly or indirectly, any member of the judiciary or its representative to sway the course of justice.”
Okpor went on to say that Gov Nwifuru is aware that the tribunal is made up of judges of integrity and impeccable character who will never seek or accept cash gratification from anyone or a group of persons.
“Our unshakable confidence in the Nigerian judicial system is not in doubt,” he stressed.
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