Wike nominated six out of seven new Judges to control Rivers Judiciary, Odinkalu alleges

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike single-handedly nominated six of the seven judges allocated to Rivers State, reveals Professor Chidi Odinkalu, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

According to Odinkalu in a post on his X handle, the seventh slot was filled by the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara.

In the post on Monday, Odinkalu said that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, had no input on the appointments of the judicial officers.

He said in the post, “In this last set of judicial appointments in Rivers State, @GovWike 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.”

Odinkalu added: “People need to understand how the #GreedyGlutton became the emperor of the legal & judicial system. By the time the list of judicial nominees sent by the state had got out of Abuja, it had been changed. Ask the kind of people who can do this and you will understand how bad it is.”