Barr. Bright Emeka Ngene, the Labour Party candidate for Enugu South Urban Constituency in the State House of Assembly, has accused the Enugu State government’s executive and judiciary branches of plotting to imprison him.
Ngene claims this alleged conspiracy is a punitive measure for his insistence on retaining the mandate he won in the March 18, 2023 House of Assembly Election.
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Speaking to journalists in Enugu, Ngene alleged that Chief Judge of Enugu State, Deputy Chief Registrar, and Magistrate have conspired to ignore a pending petition before the National Judicial Council (NJC), which had taken up his case.
He called for urgent intervention to prevent what he described as a severe miscarriage of justice aimed at ending his political and legal careers.
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Ngene had been declared the winner of the Enugu South Rural Constituency election and was sworn into the House of Assembly, but the court later overturned this decision following a petition by his rival, Sam Ngene of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to Ngene, re-run elections for eight disputed polling units in the constituency have been held twice but were inconclusive, and a third re-run scheduled for June 8 was canceled without notifying Labour Party.
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In his petition to the NJC, Ngene alleged a corrupt agreement between the Enugu State Chief Judge, the Deputy Chief Registrar, and the state government to imprison him before a re-run election can be conducted.
“there is corruptive agreement between the Honourable Chief Judge of Enugu State, His Lordship A.R Ozoemena, the Deputy Chief Registrar, Chijioke Agbo, His Worship E.D Onwu, Esq and the Enugu State government to at all cost or willy nilly put me behind bars before a re-run is conducted over my seat in the Enugu State House of Assembly.”
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“Otherwise, why are these parties applying impunity in continuing with the trial when the NJC has accepted custody of the matter? The ideal thing is that parties in this matter should relax for NJC to decide but they are rushing the matter to put me behind bars and go ahead to conduct the re-run election.” He said
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“I seek the NJC to save me from oppression, persecution, and impeding wrongful conviction bathed by corruption and obvious abuse of judicial office and power.”
“Unless the National Judicial Council intervenes, the Honourable Chief Judge of Enugu State, the Deputy Chief Registrar, and His Worship E. D Onwu will wrongfully and corruptly destroy my ambition to continue to be in the House of Assembly of Enugu State and dent my political and legal career with conviction,” Ngene petitioned.
Bright Ngene called on the NJC to intervene and prevent what he described as oppression, persecution, and potential wrongful conviction due to corruption and abuse of judicial power.
