By our reporter| Rivers state government on Wednesday said it will hold Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum resources, responsible if anything happens to supreme court justice, Mary Odili.
Justice Odilli was head of the five-man panel of the apex court that sacked David Lyon, candidate of the APC in the 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa state last week.
Earlier in the week protesters besieged the home of the wife of the former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili to protest the judgment.
But a communique issued by Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Paulinus Nsirim, in response to the protest, said: “that the Rivers State Executive Council observed that the Federal Government seems not to show interest in the sponsored threats to the lives of Dr. Peter Odili and members of his family”.
“That the Rivers State Executive Council condemns the barricading of the residence of Dr. Peter Odili at Maitama, Abuja by sponsored thugs of the All Progressives Congress (APC),” the communique read.
“That the Rivers State Executive Council wondered why Dr. Peter Odili’s family should be singled out for the unwarranted attack, when the judgment that ousted David Lyon as Governor of Bayelsa State was a unanimous decision of a five-member panel of Supreme Court Justices.
“That Rivers State Government will hold Timipre Sylva and Adams Oshiomhole responsible if anything happens to Dr. Peter Odili and members of his family.”
The communique further stated that the state government will employ all legal means to protect Odili’s family, and Rivers indigene serving as judicial officers both at the federal and state level.
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