The Court of Appeal has debunked the purported resignation of one of the Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo.
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Some blogs (not VeonewsNG) claimed that Justice Ugo resigned from the Bench, citing demands from the executive branch that he believes would destroy the country’s democracy.
According to Justice Ugo’s statement, he was asked to cripple the independence of the judiciary by ruling in favour of a certain political candidate, whom he did not name but is widely believed to be President Bola Tinubu.
But when contacted, Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari labeled the information false and that no Justices resigned from the Bench of the Court of Appeal.
According to the Chief Registrar, Justice Ugo is still on the panel of Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court handling the petitions by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Obi, and Atiku challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.