Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, disclosed that he ensured that judicial officers got a conducive environment despite losing an election appeal at the Court of Appeal.
Wike disclosed that the Appeal Court nullified his election, but he remains steadfast in providing a conducive environment for judicial
officers.
He made the disclosure during the commissioning of Judges' Quarters (Court of Appeal) and Flag-Off Construction of Quarters for Industrial Court, Code of Conduct Tribunal by President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu was represented by the commissioning by the Attorney
General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi.
However, Wike also noted that Federal Government can’t carry
out all projects, hence states should be involved.
According to Wike: “The federal government can’t do everything.
I challenge states, governors, if there is one division in state A and the
governor knows that the Federal High Court is there, to whom are they rendering
services to? They are not rendering services to state B but to state A.
“The Court of Appeal is there, who are they rendering
services to? It’s your state, the Industrial Court is there. When I was
governor, we used to go to Bayelsa State for Industrial Court, and 80 percent of
the cases came from Rivers.
“So I said, ' Why are we going to Bayelsa? ' I met the
then-President of Industrial Court. Why do we go to Bayelsa? He said the
state was not willing, but I said, ‘I’m willing, give me the designs, and we built
for them, provided accommodations for them, and today our people no longer go to
Bayelsa to have their cases.
“Justice Bulkachuwa was the president of the Court of Appeal
and my election was nullified, so ordinary I will not agree to do anything but
who's going to lose? My people in the state will lose.
“Look at the residences of the Justices, so I didn’t wait
for the Federal Government; if I had waited for the Federal Government, it would
take a longer time. So I challenge states not to leave everything to the
Federal government.”
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