Nafiu Bala: Be careful, international community watching – Timi Frank warns Nigerian judges

Timi Frank, the erstwhile Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has cautioned judicial officers crossed the state against delivering judgments that could undermine Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian process, informing that the planetary assemblage is intimately monitoring developments successful the nation’s courts.

Frank, who spoke amid ongoing ineligible disputes involving the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and its erstwhile Deputy National Chairman, Nafiu Bala Gombe, expressed interest implicit what helium described arsenic attempts to deploy the judiciary against absorption governmental parties up of aboriginal elections.

He called connected the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the National Judicial Council, NJC, and judges of the Federal High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court to uphold the independency of the judiciary and defy unit from politicians.

According to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, judicial decisions successful politically delicate cases indispensable beryllium guided strictly by the instrumentality and not partisan considerations.

“The Chief Judge and each judges of the Federal High Court, arsenic good arsenic judges crossed the country, should beryllium cautious successful the mode they grip governmental and different delicate cases astatine this time. They should beryllium cautious due to the fact that the planetary assemblage is watching and pay...