Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo Court of Appeal had yet to debunk the news of his resignation from the five-member panel handling petitions seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, many hours after the news of his purported resignation broke on Social Media.
It was reported that Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo resigned over presuures on him to “kneecap” democracy by siding with President Tinubu in the tribunal’s decision.
However, Bukola Gaar, head of media and personal assistant to the President, Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed the reports as “fake news”.
According to the Appeal court official, the report is not true and should be disregarded.
The Online platform, PointBlankNews had broke the news of Justice Ugo’s resignation.
It reported: “In a shocking and unprecedented move, Nigerian Justice Boloukuoromo M. Ugo has resigned from the bench, citing demands from the executive branch that he believes would destroy the country’s democracy.
“In a statement, Justice Ugo said that siding with the government on this matter would be the ‘death of Nigeria’s democracy’, and that he could not in good conscience remain silent. His resignation has sent shockwaves through the country, and raised serious questions about the state of Nigeria’s democratic institutions. According to Justice Ugo’s statement, he was asked to ‘cripple the independence of the judiciary’ by ruling in favor of a certain political candidate, whom he did not name but is widely believed to be Bola Tinubu.”
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