Makarfi condemns falsehood against judiciary

THE chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has condemned what he said was deliberate falsehood being perpetrated against the judiciary following an online report that suggested that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Ononghen, may be interfering with the pending judgement on the PDP leadership tussle case before the Supreme Court.

He told Tribune Online on Sunday that the same individuals who accused his leadership of floating a new political party because it was likely to lose the court case were apparently behind this report, saying that they do not mean well for the country.

He said, “Whoever is spreading such falsehood doesn’t mean well for our country and the judiciary.

“On the one hand, we are accused of floating another party because we are losing our appeal and now this wicked insinuation.”

This came just as the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff declared that he was ‎confident that judiciary would do the needful regarding the leadership crisis rocking the party, despite the insinuations to the contrary making the rounds.

Speaking through his Deputy National Chairman, Dr Cairo Ojugboh, during an interview in Abuja on Sunday, ‎Sheriff said, “We have absolute and total confidence in the judiciary, the case will be decided on merit.

“Our plea to the judiciary is that it should not succumb to blackmail. We have confidence in the apex court sitting on the matter. The apex court is made up of unquestionable characters and we believe in rule of law.

“No amount of propaganda, blackmail and negative campaigns can change the facts before the wise men. We are calling on all our teeming supporters and the international community to be on the red alert because more of such lies against us will be flying around in the wee hours; we are not part of it.”