Abia Governorship tussle: I have been denied my fundamental human rights by Abuja Court- Ikpeazu
Wed Jul 06, 2016 08:13:am Politics
2.5K By Buchi Obichie
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has described the present political crisis rocking his state as "atomistic," a situation where the state is at war with itself; even as he stated that the Abuja High Court had denied him his fundamental human right.
The Governor made his comments while receiving some lawyers who visited him under the aegis of Team of Concerned Lawyers.'
He blamed the "ambition of one man" for instigating the political crisis and putting Abians on edge, saying that what was happening was not about him but about the "Office of the Governor," calling it a "coup d'etat".
In his words: "The Abuja High Court ruling denied me of the right to exercise my fundamental human right, which is the right of appeal.
"So, if it was a case of execution, I would have been killed without being given time to exercise my right of appeal before a court of competent jurisdiction, which is against the laws of fundamental human rights."
He thanked the lawyers in the state for educating the people of the state on the need to remain calm, "as the desperados had already come into the state to wreak havoc."
Speaking, the leader of the team, Mr. Ogbonnaya Nwanunu explained that they had come to lend their support to the Governor and rub minds with him, over the political crisis.
He alluded to the Governor's comment that what was happening in Abia was a "coup d'etat," and also called it a "rape of democracy."
Nwanunu said: "We have come to rub minds with the Governor with the aim of finding lasting solutions and the way forward to the current political crisis in the state.
"The only place where a man who did not contest election became a Governor like what happened in one of the neighbouring states will never happen again as the electoral act has been amended.
"The case in question made the electoral act to be amended, so what is happening in the state where a man will dream of being a governor and wake up trying to make his dream a reality, is a rape of democracy and a coup d'tat."
The Governor made his comments while receiving some lawyers who visited him under the aegis of Team of Concerned Lawyers.'
He blamed the "ambition of one man" for instigating the political crisis and putting Abians on edge, saying that what was happening was not about him but about the "Office of the Governor," calling it a "coup d'etat".
In his words: "The Abuja High Court ruling denied me of the right to exercise my fundamental human right, which is the right of appeal.
"So, if it was a case of execution, I would have been killed without being given time to exercise my right of appeal before a court of competent jurisdiction, which is against the laws of fundamental human rights."
He thanked the lawyers in the state for educating the people of the state on the need to remain calm, "as the desperados had already come into the state to wreak havoc."
Speaking, the leader of the team, Mr. Ogbonnaya Nwanunu explained that they had come to lend their support to the Governor and rub minds with him, over the political crisis.
He alluded to the Governor's comment that what was happening in Abia was a "coup d'etat," and also called it a "rape of democracy."
Nwanunu said: "We have come to rub minds with the Governor with the aim of finding lasting solutions and the way forward to the current political crisis in the state.
"The only place where a man who did not contest election became a Governor like what happened in one of the neighbouring states will never happen again as the electoral act has been amended.
"The case in question made the electoral act to be amended, so what is happening in the state where a man will dream of being a governor and wake up trying to make his dream a reality, is a rape of democracy and a coup d'tat."
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