Arrested Judge makes shocking statement

A justice of the Supreme court, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, said the minister of science and technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has asked him to help influence the apex court’s verdicts on the Ebonyi state governorship election case last year, Punch reports.

He made this allegation in a letter dated October 18, and addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.

He said Onu wanted his help to sway the decision of the Court of Appeal when he honoured the minister’s invitation.

“The incident I will narrate below may or may not bear on this case. When the governorship election appeal from my state, Ebonyi, came to the Court of Appeal, one Mr. Igwenyi, a senior staff member of the Federal Judicial Service Commission came to my chambers and told me that the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, had pleaded with him to convince me to see him, Onu.

“I asked him to call Dr Onu which he did and I wanted to know why he wanted to see me. He said it was confidential. I asked when he wanted to see me and he said he would like me to come in the evening.