Just In : Fresh Revelation Emerge After ‘Obidients’ Spread Rumours On Justice Tsammani Being Down With Enlarged Prostate, Confined To Wheelchair
Reports suggesting that Justice Haruna Tsammani of the Nigerian Court of Appeal is ill and using a wheelchair have been refuted by sources within the court.
Supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential election, had circulated tweets claiming that Justice Tsammani was now using a wheelchair due to an enlarged prostate condition.
Nevertheless, insiders at the Court of Appeal assured SaharaReporters on Thursday that the judge is in good health.
“He was even in court yesterday (Wednesday) and was in the office of the Court Registrar, Umar M. Bangari, Esq.,” one of the top sources said.
Justice Tsammani led a five-man panel at the Presidential Election Petitions Court that rejected the petitions filed by Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar (the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party), and the Allied Peoples Movement. Their petitions sought to contest the election of Bola Tinubu from the All Progressives Congress as Nigeria’s president.
The panel stated that Peter Obi and the Labour Party could not prove that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately withheld the uploading of polling unit results to IReV. Obi and LP, in their petitions, claimed that the electoral body delayed the results to manipulate them in favor of Tinubu.
However, in their ruling in September, the five-man panel led by Justice Tsammani argued that nothing in the petition demonstrated that INEC intentionally did so to tamper with the results of the 2023 presidential election. They noted that the Electoral Act of 2022 did not provide for electronic transmission of election results.
Tsammani clarified that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was the only technological device mandated for use by INEC in the election. According to the court, both INEC regulations and the Electoral Act grant the electoral body the authority to determine the best method for collating results, which includes manual processes.
The panel also pointed out that the petitioners did not establish corruption in the collation of the results, among other reasons cited for dismissing the petitions as “unmeritorious.”
An X user, Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) posted on Wednesday posted, “JUSTICE TSAMMANI ON WHEELCHAIR, SUFFERING PROSTRATE, ANGRY WITH WIKE.
“Justice Haruna Tsammani returned from Paris unable to fix his enlarged prostrate. He has been in a wheelchair and cannot walk, according to an informant at the Appeal Court.
“FCT Minister Nyesom Wike who had gone to visit the ailing Tsammani did not enjoy his visit. Tsammani was said to have angrily told the Minister that they are responsible for his ailment.
“I am not sure what the Judge may have meant by that. But Tsammani is simply not a happy man today.”
JUSTICE TSAMMANI ON WHEELCHAIR, SUFFERING PROSTRATE, ANGRY WITH WIKE
Justice Haruna Tsammani returned from Paris unable to fix his enlarged prostrate. He has been on a wheelchair and cannot walk, according to an informant at the Appeal Court.
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike who had… pic.twitter.com/9AVcC7vYEr
— Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) October 18, 2023
Adetutu Balogun, MBA (@Tutsy22), a known supporter of Peter Obi, who identifies as an ‘Obidient’ (name for Obi’s supporters), had reacted to Ude’s tweet, saying, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
“Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
“WHO ACQUIT THE GUILTY FOR A BRIBE, BUT DENY JUSTICE TO THE INNOCENT. #TheBible #Isaiah.”
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
WHO ACQUIT THE GUILTY FOR A BRIBE, BUT DENY JUSTICE TO THE… https://t.co/AbLfEitOkQ
— Adetutu Balogun, MBA (@Tutsy22) October 18, 2023
Similarly, an X account associated with the campaign for the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization (@PO_GrassRootM) had tweeted, “The alleged report of JUSTICE TSAMMANI ON WHEELCHAIR, SUFFERING PROSTRATE is sad, shameful,and disheartening. The report alleged that Justice Haruna Tsammani returned from Paris unable to fix his enlarged prostate. He has been in a wheelchair and cannot walk, according to an informant at the Appeal Court, and him accusing some notable individuals as brain behind his illness.
“Unfortunately, many Nigerians politicians failed to realize that the tears and sufferings of the poor Nigerians will surely and always hurt them in one way or the other. No one steals from the poor and escapes the consequences and the tears of the poor masses. The reward of evil acts comes faster than as expected.”
The alleged report of JUSTICE TSAMMANI ON WHEELCHAIR, SUFFERING PROSTRATE is sad, shameful,and disheartening. The report alleged that Justice Haruna Tsammani returned from Paris unable to fix his enlarged prostate. He has been in a wheelchair and cannot walk, according to an… pic.twitter.com/3KUkZ8sqjh
— Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization. (@PO_GrassRootM) October 18, 2023
