The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to ‘send a justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Okoro Inyang to jail’ if he does not withdraw his bribery allegation against Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation within one week.

Justice Okoro had written the Chief Justice of Nigeria after his house was raided by the DSS, claiming that he was a target because he refused bribe from Amaechi to influence court rulings on Rivers, Abia and Akwa Ibom elections.

The APC regarded Okoro’s allegations as “wild and baseless allegation”.

“One does not need a soothsayer to see that Justice Okoro is very confused and thinks that by mentioning the name of Amaechi in his letter, he would deceive Nigerians and play down the gravity of his sins and crimes against Rivers State people and Nigeria as a whole,” read the statement, released on Thursday in Port Harcourt,by Davies Ikanya, state chairman of the party.

“If we may ask Justice Okoro, why should Amaechi or anybody attempt to bribe him for an election upturned by both the Tribunal and the Appeal Court? An election widely condemned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the international community and both local and foreign observers who monitored the shambolic exercise in the course of which over 200 of our members were slaughtered like chicken just to install Chief Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in power at all cost?”

It continued, “For failing to report the fictional bribery attempt by Amaechi, Justice Okoro has committed an offence that attracts up to two years imprisonment.

“We are hereby giving him one week to retract his worthless and satanic letter and apologise to Amaechi or we may be forced to set in motion a machinery to invoke the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offence Act 2000.”

Oludolapo Adelana

Dolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, politics and sports.