Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has described the trial of some Judges over alleged corruption as rather an attempt to muzzle and weaken the country’s judiciary for manifestly political purposes.

Wike, who resisted the attempt by the DSS to arrest a Judge of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, recently, ‎cautioned that trial of the Judges couldn’t be healthy for the stability and progress of the country’s democracy.

The governor stated this in his address at the opening of the Rivers State Judiciary 2016/2017 Legal Year at the State High Court in Port Harcourt yesterday.

He said the attack on the judiciary stands to be condemned by all those who can see the danger in such brazen actions by state agencies that are subject to the country’s laws.

He stated: “What is even more disturbing is the double standard and lack of courage exhibited in the matter by the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) when there was nothing new in the facts to warrant such a dangerous volte-face and pitiable submission to extraneous pressures.”

Wike stressed that the judiciary must be independent and effective to enforce the universal application of the rule of law, saying the absence of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary is a recipe for anarchy.