Odinkalu Accuses FCT Minister Wike of Reducing Judicial System to Organised Crime

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi Odinkalu has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike of reducing the Judiciary system to an organised crime.

Professor Odinkalu stated in a post shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the former governor of Rivers State, although no longer in office, selected six out of seven judges in the state.

He described Wike as a greedy glutton, stating that Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Chief Judge of the State Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi had no say in the appointments, as the lists had been changed in Abuja.

“In this last set of judicial appointments in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike took 6 of the 7 slots; left one for the sitting governor. The Chief Judge was left to have no say in the appointments. The man is worse than a #GreedyGlutton. He’s reduced the judicial system to #OrganisedCrime

“Ppl need to understand how the #GreedyGlutton became the emperor of the legal & judicial system. By the time the list of judicial nominees settled by the state had got out of Abuja, it had been changed. Ask ur the kind of ppl who can do this & u will understand how bad it is.”

Odinkalu who had been at the forefront of the demand for Judicial reform stated that the state of the judiciary today is ample evidence to suggest that Nigeria’s judicial system has evolved from a system of jurisprudence to one preoccupied with Jurisprudence.