The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi has applauded the Supreme Court for upturning lower court judgment that sentenced Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu to 12 years in prison on corruption allegation.
Eze Nwachukwu, the state APC Chairman, said on Saturday in Abakaliki that the judgment delivered by the apex court was a victory for democracy and supremacy of the rule of law.
He said that Ebonyi APC received the news with great joy and jubilation, adding that justice has been served following the acquittal.
He said: “We applaud the nation’s judiciary and the apex court which saw it necessary that justice was strangled along the line.
“That the judicial procedure that would have given a credible judgment was not followed, thereby setting aside the judgment and ordering for retrial.
“We say it is a welcome development because the earlier judgment brought the transparency of the judiciary to question, we commend the Supreme Court for doing the needful.
“Yes, he has spent months in incarceration but we believe as Christians that God may have used those periods to keep him away from unknown evil and no matter the pains he may have gone, the joy of his freedom will wash them away.
“The prison experience has also given him the opportunity like he said, to know who is who to him, his political and economic lives,” he said.
Nwachukwu described the embattled Abia-born politician and businessman as one of the foremost Igbo leaders that devoted his entire life, carrier and wealth to humanity.
