Arrest of judges: Presidency reacts to alleged victimization

– Buhari would never victimize anyone for whatever reason, according to the presidency

– The presidency also reveals that the current administration would never be intimated from its anti-corruption war

The Presidency on Tuesday night, October 18, said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari would never victimize anyone for whatever reason, Vanguard reports.

The presidency reaction comes on the heels of an allegation by Justice John Inyang Okoro, one of the Judges arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), that the federal government was victimizing him unduly in relation to the gubernatorial elections in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.

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But according to the presidency, the current administration would never be intimated from its anti-corruption war.

A presidency source who craved anonymity said: “The law must run its full course on anyone who breaks it.

“It is not in the character of this government to victimize anybody.”

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Justice John Inyang Okoro, one of the Supreme Court judges whose home was recently invaded by the DSS, has alleged that his travail in the hands of the operatives was in connection with alleged desire of the Presidency and All Progressives Congress to win at all cost, election appeals in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia states.

He also said the $24,000 and £10,000 recovered in his house by the operatives was balance of the estacode he received on foreign trips for three years.

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