Taraba And Benue : A Judicial Fraud.


By Ejembi Ogwuche

The sordid judgments of most governorship election petitions against the pdp is akin to judiciary terrorism.A jihad cannot be discounted from  this sordid judgements of the election petitions in Taraba and Benue state.The Karatu judgement in Benue against Tarzor on same grounds with the celebrated Taraba APC backed tribunal lacks credibility by all electoral indices.

There is an incredible nexus between both petitions and prayers of the petitioners; non conducts of party primaries ,non qualifications  of candidates and voiding of the elections.But Justice Karatu gave a lawn tennis court judgement against Tarzar in Benue while the Taraba panel gave a jihadist judgement.

There is no dispute that  APC never conducted party primaries in Benue as there were admissible empirical evidences but rather Karatu became emotive in her judgment because of alleged extraneous influences.Evidences tendered by Tarzor suggests his opponents has no business in participating in the election in the first place .

Another curious twist in the Benue case is the cross appeal by the respondents because the weight of evidence prevented Karatu from giving a wholesale judgement in favour of ApC. We hope the appellate court will be responsive and redeem the credibility of the judiciary.

The Benue judgement cut no ice in informed judiciary circles.It was a tactical judgement……