No Judge Disowned Supreme Court Judgement On Uzodimma – Imo Govt

Owerri – The Imo state government on Tuesday described as irresponsible and unreasonable a report saying that a supreme Court judge has apologised over the ruling on Imo Governorship five years ago.

The Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, spoke to newsmen in Owerri, while reacting to the “fake news” on social media.

Emelumba’s statement stated: “Imo State government has dismissed as puerile, ludicrous, and irresponsible the recent attempt by enemies of the State to rubbish the profile of Governor Hope Uzodimma through fake news. The fake news being circulated in the social media purporting a Supreme Court judge to have apologised to Imo people over the ruling five years ago was one in a series of failed attempts to rubbish the reputation of Uzodimma.”

He linked it to the handiwork of those he called “The purveyors of fake news. They appear not to be tired even when they have failed woefully and repeatedly in their satanic mission to destroy the governor politically. We shall continue to counter them lest they get away with these tissues of lies and propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the governor, no matter how incredible and ridiculous.”

He further said: “In their haste to impersonate the so-called Supreme Court justice who purportedly apologised, blaming her action on eye infection, no name was given and the place and event where she made the statement were not also given” adding that; “those who continue to dwell on the Supreme Court judgment have refused to accept defeat even when Uzodimma roundly trounced them in last year’s governorship election.”

It was his view that; “Because the opposition continues to live in denial, it has never occurred to them that after the Supreme Court judgment, PDP sought a review where the learned Justices threw the books at them with a heavy cost. They also had another opportunity to test their popularity in another election, yet Uzodimma floored them in all the 27 local government areas of the State. Is it not time for them to go hide their faces in shame?

However, the Commissioner “blamed the social media for aiding the opposition in the publication of unsubstantiated materials, especially the instant one that seeks to denigrate the integrity of a Supreme Court judge.”

Also, he noted that; “There are basic rules in the journalism profession that were totally violated by those who published that trash. Who said what, when, where, at what occasion, and how were not answered because it was fake news. We are responding for the simple reason that some gullible members of society might believe it to be true.

“To the best of knowledge of the government, no judge who participated in the ruling, which restored Uzodimma’s mandate, has ever disowned it, talk less of blaming eye infection for it. The intermittent circulation of fake news against Uzodimma was being sponsored by those afraid of his national political visibility, which has dwarfed their local standing.”