Buhari Group Calls CUPP ‘Criminal Arm’ Of PDP, Warns Against Attack On CJN

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has criticized the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) over its recent allegation that the federal government was pressurizing the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to accept a “handpicked” list of justices to seat on Atiku Abubakar’s appeal petition at the apex court.

BMO described CUPP as a “criminal arm” of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose activities must be checked.

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The group said the CUPP and its spokesman, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, must stop assaulting the Supreme Court and tarnishing the image of national institutions in the country under the pretext of representing a coalition of smaller parties.

BMO issued the warning in a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke.

The group said, “What they are doing amounts to desecrating the temple of justice and they need to be stopped.

“We had actually raised the alarm a few weeks ago about a PDP plot to intimidate and harass the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed, into recusing himself from the Supreme Court panel to sit on the appeal filed by the party and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.

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“We said then that it was part of a new strategy concocted in Dubai, so we are not surprised to see this unguarded attack being led by a known PDP attack dog who has been unleashed to do the dirty job of ridiculing the Supreme Court.

“This was a similar ploy that played out when the Appeal Court President Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa was forced to recuse herself from the panel that heard the petition.

“It is a known fact that Ikenga Ugochinyere is a political jobber that has for years been associated with the PDP when the party was in control at the federal level but has in recent times presented himself as the spokesman of a non-existent coalition of political parties.”

BMO also wants the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to take a second look at the activities of Ikenga Ugochinyere who, in spite of being a lawyer, is the arrowhead of the campaign of calumny against the Apex Court, and by extension, the Judiciary.

“We would have expected him, as a lawyer, to be circumspect but since he is a paid hack of the opposition party, he clearly has no qualms about bringing the Bar and Bench to disrepute.

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“He must have violated some laid-down rules and regulations guiding the profession in his constant insult of the judiciary as well as his latest outburst against the Supreme Court in spite of a warning from the court,” it added.

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