By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has warned the state government to stop intimidating Judges in the cause of their duties, even as it commended the new Commissioner of Police for being professional.
The Ebonyi indigenes said the agents of state government were trying to manipulate the judiciary into causing trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
In a statement released by its President, Amb. Paschal Oluchukwu, on Sunday in Abuja, said the goal is to continue to cause division in the PDP by having the Nwebonyi group parade as a factional State Exco of the PDP through Suit No: HAB/161/2020 with Roy Umahi as the lead counsel to the Plaintiffs.
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Justice Vincent Nwanchor, handling a suit filed by Chief Onyekachi Nwaebonyi in an Ebonyi State High Court, sitting in Abakaliki challenging the dissolution of the State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, recused himself from the matter.
The withdrawal was the third time in a row a presiding Judge was recusing himself from the case after Justice Elvis Ngene and the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Anslem Nwaigwe did the same some weeks ago, when the matter was handed over to them.
The suit was slated for ruling on January 18 but was deferred till January 20 following an application by the counsel to the defendants, Chief Mudi Erenede, saying they had filed an appeal on the jurisdiction of the State High court.
A High Court sitting in Abakaliki, yesterday said it would rule on the matter challenging the dissolution of the Ward, Local Government and State executives of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State by the National Leadership of the Party on Wednesday, 20th of January 2021.