Buhari Gets Desperate Sends DSS To Kidnap Judges, Wike Escapes Death

Early on Saturday night, 1am precisely, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state escaped death by the whiskers as he was nearly shot by a detachment of the DSS who had attempted to abduct a judge from the Judges Quarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.

Wike had mobilised the police commissioner and his top aides to stop the alleged attempt by personnel of the DSS to abduct the judge, whose identity was not known as at press time, from his number 35/84 B residence, Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt.

The governor told journalists in front of the judge’s residence that he was manhandled by men of the DSS and the Police who came to whisk the judge away.

“What has happened this night is unfortunate. Even in military government it has never happened like this, you listen to people. This is why we are here. I said not under my watch will I allow this type of activity take place.

“The DSS, Police they cocked their guns and said they will shoot me. And I told them I have never heard this type of thing happen before. Again this is to show that more of this will come. Wondering why the security men will choose 1 am to storm the residence of the judge?”

Wike expressed the worry that the security personnel action portends garve danger for the nation’s democracy, stressing that all he expected the security men to have done was to invite the judge, adding that if he had ignored the invitation then other legal steps should have been taken.

Continuing, he said he did not bother to know the name of the judge but he only had to come out to stop the attempted abduction of the judge because as Chief Security of the state he would not allow such lawlessness take place in his state.

In a related development, operatives of the DSS simultaneously invaded the houses of two Justices of the Supreme Court – Justices Walter Onnoghen and Sylvester Ngwuta – as well as two judges of the Federal High Court, Justices Adeniyi Ademola and Nnamdi Dimgba.

Justices Onnoghen is the second in rank and the most likely successor to the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria.

It was learnt that the DSS operatives surrounded the judicial officers’ houses for hours before they eventually broke in at about 1am on Saturday.

Justice Ademola was taken away at about 5am on Saturday, while the DSS operatives allegedly beat up Justice Dimgba’s brother during the operation.

On Friday, Justice Muazu Pindiga, who was the first chairman of the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal, before he was changed midway into the hearing of the dispute arising from the 2015 governorship election in the state, was arrested in Gombe and has not been heard from since then.