The People's Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate for the Saturday Senatorial bye-election in Ebonyi South District, Barr. Silas Onu has expressed concern over what he described as a disservice to humanity meted out to the people of Ebonyi State in the just concluded appointment of judges in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja.
Onu in a press statement made available to journalists yesterday in Abakaliki, called on the National Judicial Council, NJC to annul the unjust process of the appointment of judges in the FCT High Court to immediately include Ebonyi state where the applications are expected from.
He said, the publication listed the States where applicants are expected, and to his greatest shock, Ebonyi State is once more deliberately not listed among the States where applications are expected from, and today, as the FCT High Court is presently constituted, Ebonyi State is visibly not represented on that Bench.
"We have no single judge there! Is the federal character principle blind to the interest of Ebonyians?
"Or are we considered not to be good enough for the FCT Bench?
"The publication listed states that already dominates the FCT High Court as if it has become the exclusive preserve of these States.
"I call on the Federal Judicial Service Commission and National Judicial Council to discontinue this unjust process and immediately include Ebonyi State as one of the focal States with a minimum of 3 slots to make up for our absence on the FCT Bench," Onu said.
The Ebonyi South Senatorial hopeful, however, called all well-meaning Nigerians, the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA Abuja, the Nigeria government, and as well Nigerian Senate to lend their voices towards correcting this obvious and deliberate act of excluding Ebonyi State from having even a single judge on the FCT Bench.
