‘Be Careful’ – Presidency Hits At Peter Obi

The presidency has fired back at the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, over criticism of the provision of decent accommodation for judges by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Naija News reports that the Senior Advisor on Digital/New Media to President Tinubu, O’tega Ogra, in a post on his 𝕏 handle, cautioned Peter Obi against claims that the decision to provide judges with decent accommodation was an attempt to compromise the judiciary.

While warning Peter Obi about his kind of politics, Ogra asked him, “What exactly were you doing in Anambra in 2013 when you built and inaugurated judges’ quarters – and promised to build more?”

Tinubu’s aide stated that poor working and living conditions expose judges to pressure, compromise, and manipulation by those who want to abuse the justice system

He wrote, “Peter Gregory Obi should be careful with this kind of politics. I watched his conversation where he rallied against the construction of habitable quarters for members of the judiciary. Mr @PeterObi, If providing decent accommodation for judges is an attempt to compromise the judiciary, what exactly were you doing in Anambra in 2013 when you built and inaugurated judges’ quarters – and promised to build more?

“Were you strengthening the judiciary then, but President Tinubu is weakening it now? If you say it is corrupting the judiciary now, were you corrupting the judiciary then?

“The argument is simply that, what was said to be good governance in Anambra cannot suddenly become corruption in Abuja simply because someone you don’t like is the President.

“Here are my thoughts: Poor working and living conditions expose judges to pressure, compromise, and manipulation by those who want to abuse the justice system.

“We cannot demand an independent judiciary and, at the same time, oppose the basic welfare that helps protect that independence.

“Image: Peter Obi handing over keys to the judges quarters he built in Anambra state to the Chief Judge of Anambra State, His Lordship Hon. Justice Peter Umeadi.”