PDP Kicks As Court Grants Hon Lloyd Bail

 

The Rivers PDP on Monday kicked against the bail granted the lawmaker by the Ahoada court. It described the bail granted by Justice Charles Wali as a “travesty of justice.”

The party in a statement by the Special Adviser to its chairman, Mr. Jerry Needam, described the court ruling as a vindication of the fears expressed by the party.

“This is a vindication of our fears and alarm that Hon. Michael Chindah cannot get justice in Rivers State,” the statement read.

Chindah, an anti-Amaechi member of the state assembly, was on July 9 battered, allegedly by Lloyd, during the fracas in the House.

Justice Wali granted the lawmaker bail after his (Lloyd) counsel, Mr. Emenike Ebete, moved an exparte motion, praying the court to grant him bail on health grounds.

The judge however directed that a motion of notice be served the Rivers State Police Command as well as Force Headquarters in Abuja on the latest development.

The Rivers PDP said the judge’s ruling was a contradiction of the ongoing sanitisation of the judiciary by the National Judicial Council.

The party queried the logic behind the bail in a case that was already before another judge in Port Harcourt, which had adjourned till Tuesday, August 6, 2013.

It described the bail order by the Ahoada High Court as a plot to drag and further implicate the state judiciary in a clear criminal case of attempted murder.

The party said, “This has confirmed its earlier claim and fears that Governor Amaechi and his cohorts are doing all within their power, using his office to want to let Chidi Lloyd off the hook while his victim, Michael Chinda, is dying in a London hospital.

“Why run to far away Ahoada when the offence for which Hon. Lloyd was arrested for was committed in Port Harcourt.

“The presence of Amaechi’s Commissioner for Agriculture and top aides of the Governor  (of  Rivers State) in court today was premeditated to set Chidi Lloyd free.

“The Ahoada High Court presided over by Justice Charles Wali lacks jurisdiction to hear the matter, and above all, lacks the power to order the release of Chidi Lloyd in a criminal case that the suspect was not before him and plea not taken.”