A Civil Society Organisation (CSO) has asked the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank to apologise over his allegations that the Supreme Court judges collected $2 million to influence their judgment over the Osun governorship suit to favour former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola.
Adegboyega had challenged the Appeal Court judgment which invalidated the decision of the Election Petition Tribunal that he won Governor Ademola Adeleke at the July 16th, 2020 governorship election.
In a statement issued on Friday, the chairman of the Center for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Debo Adeniran in a described Frank’s statement as a denigration of the Justices of the Supreme Court, made with a very bad intentions.
He held that Frank made an unsubstantiated allegation of plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to purchase the expected judgment of the Osun State governorship election with $2 million dollars for each of the Justices sitting in judgment over the petition.
The statement read in part: “The ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC wants to impugn the character of the revered Justices over the statement and must be condemned by every Nigerian. Frank’s allegations against the judiciary lack tact and diplomacy.”
He thereby cautioned that there is no nexus between justice and emotion in a real democratic clime genuinely driven by the rules of law, asking “Frank to, without further delay, apologise to the Justices of the Supreme Court over his baseless and unfounded allegation of corruption against them.”