Can you please read this dispassionately on the Suspension of the CJN, by Rotimi wrote:
Part of the problem with our public debate is lack of knowledge of the facts driving the debate and a lot of sentiments. So on this issue I will try to explain what the President meant by the former CJN and his legal team using their privileged position to undermine the judicial process.
When this matter first came up, the CJN did not appear in Court. Why? He could not be served personally because he rejected service! Now no other person in this country can get away with that.
When in Court, his array of SANs filed a motion challenging jurisdiction of the CCT and insisted it must be heard. The CCT said it will hear it but the accused must first be arraigned before any question on jurisdiction and this is elementary law that the accused must first take a plea because that is how proceedings are commenced. The former CJN still did not show up and his legal team instead filed an Appeal. Will he say he was not aware of proceedings that was carried even by international media houses? Of course not but he was simply abusing his power by ignoring judicial proceedings! No other person can try that and get away with it.
While the appeal was pending, several Courts Ex-Parte granted injunctions restraining a competent constitutional tribunal from doing its work even though they had no appellate jurisdiction over the tribunal!!! Even the industrial Court granted a restraining Order!!! Industrial Court!!!! All sorts of Courts were issuing all manners of Court Orders to protect the CJN who until now had ignored a quasi-judicial proceeding.
In other words, the continuous stay of the former CJN in office was impacting and impairing the ability of the CCT to do its constitutional job. Then the government brought a Motion on Notice seeking that the CJN steps aside and the President replaces him with the next in line. Apparently, the same motion was brought Ex-parte and for ex-parte applications the other parties need not know. As we now know, that application was granted.
On Wednesday, we witnessed the unbelievable!!!! The legal team of the former CJN filed a Motion to Stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal however, there was no Ruling from the Lower Tribunal in the Record of Appeal! Ask any lawyer who has done any work at the Court of Appeal, an Appeal cannot be entered without a copy of the ruling or judgment included in the Record of Appeal because it is at the heart of the case at the Court of Appeal! That is why you are there- to complain about the Ruling or Judgment! The only alternative is to apply under the Court of Appeal Rules to Depart from the Rules!
In this case no such application was made but somehow, the appeal was not only entered within hours with Appeal number given, the motion filed based on that appeal was slated for hearing! Counsel to former CJN admitted to this irregularity and addressed the Court for 2hrs urging that his Motion for Stay be granted. Again, ask any lawyer, no ordinary Nigerian can get this because this procedure and practice is unknown to law. The Court however, reserved its ruling for 30th of January but granted an Interim Stay till that date which in the circumstances was the right thing to do.
What is the point of all this? Evidently, the former CJN was using his position and office to push the entire judicial system beyond its limits in defense of himself. Whereas he alone was the first to admit that he forgot to remember that he had $700,000 in a domiciliary account. He alone could not explain why he had not touched his salary for 18 months! He alone was later discovered to have $3,000,000 elsewhere!!! And someone says ending such acts of abuse of office to shield questionable acts is a fight against the judiciary? Is the judiciary the harbinger of such? This is the same judiciary that produced erudite Jurists like Justice Niki Tobi, Justice Kayode Esho, Obaseki JSC and many many other eminent men!!! Can the conduct just chronicled stand beside the records of such greats? Please let no one ridicule the judiciary.
Finally, beyond our support for one political narrative or another, we must always ask ourselves what kind of Country do we want to build for ourselves and our children. PMB has done his part and even if he loses or wins in February, it does not change much because he has achieved almost all his heart desires. The man is 76!!! But we the young ones are still here with a country to live in! If we support such behavior then we are sowing the seed for an unfair, unjust and ultimately a pariah state!
In sum, the CCT gave an Order which to my mind is the proper Order to give in the circumstances. Let no man be allowed to throw the weight of his office around in defense of himself especially a lawyer and in this case a respectable Justice of the Supreme Court. The bench is a sacred chamber and a holy ground occupied by men, great in their courage, boundless in their knowledge and unsurpassed in their moral rectitude. No one has said Onnoghen JSC is not but in the light of the allegations against him and his admissions/responses let him prove it just the way an ordinary man will because we are all equal before the law.
At another level, there's this security report that the former CJN was part of the Dubai evil gathering. That he was paid upfront in order to do the bidding of PDP after they must have lost the election and lodged complain before the Court. It was he who masterminded that Saraki was absolved from similar CCT charges on non-declaration of assets.
Onnonghen promised PDP that he will constitute Tribunal Judges that will be favourable to PDP where he will stand for them in the Apex Court and will grant them dubious victory in the Supreme Court afterwards.. The Money we heard was paid by SARAKI's aides on three different instalment and in dollars.
The date which the money was Paid was transmitted to the Presidency by top security personals & shown to the former CJN when he was demanded to resigned. But knowing the Dubai deal, he wanted to act fast but the Presidency was faster.
-Now You know the tainted Thief was booted out from his Seat by Sai BABA.
-Now You know why some in the PDP are completely demoralised to the point of suspending their Campaigns that a senior member in the judiciary was booted out.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 15:19 Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com wrote:
--WHENEVER ASSOCIATION OF ASSORTED ETHNIC ROBBERS ROB NIGERIA OF FUNDS MEANT FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS, THEY CALL THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS AND TITLED THEIR ROBBERIES DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY. I CALL THEM MURDERERS IN VIEW OF THOUSANDS OF NIGERIANS WHO DIE DAILY AS THE RESULTS OF THEIR ROBBERIES.S. KADIRI, ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF VICTIMS OF FINANCIAL ROBBERIES PERPETRATED BY DEMOCRATIC ROBBERS IN NIGERIA, ANNO 2019.
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CJN: Trivializing the Matter by Ethicists"When tyranny and oppression come to the land, it will be in the guise of fighting crime." -- James Madison, President of the United States of America (1809-1817).
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:42 PM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--The National Assembly has been seized by the PDP because of carpet crossings from APC to PDP and thereby subverting the will of Nigerians as expressed in the March 28, 2015 elections. The Constitution states clearly that a carpet crosser shall lose his/her seat in the National Assembly if he/she crosses from the political party on which platform he/she is elected to another political party before the end of the period for which the Assembly is elected. The APC went to the Court in order to retrieve the majority granted to it by Nigerians in 2015, but the corrupt Nigerian Judiciary has refused to list the theft of APC Constitutionally granted mandates for hearing.
In fact, Buhari swore oath of office for the Presidency to obey and defend the Constitution of Nigeria implying that he should have deployed the security forces to bar all carpet crossers from entering the National Assembly which is now not properly constituted according to the Constitution. For instance, Bukola Saraki has the right to change his political party from APC to PDP but constitutionally he has no right to take with him the electoral mandate given to APC to the PDP. Before the National Assembly can discuss Onnoghen's case constitutionally, it must first be properly constituted, that is to say, all carpet crossers who are not legitimate members of the House should not be allowed to enter it.S. Kadiri
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CJN: Trivializing the Matter by EthicistsManipulation of the constitution. This is the time the National
Assembly should act and act very fast. This may be a prelude to what
Nigerians may expect during and after the election.
On 25/01/2019, Ashafa Abdullahi <abashafa@gmail.com> wrote:
> The attention of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders has been drawn to a coup
> against Constitutional Democracy in Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari
> by the Suspension of CJN Walter Onoghen this evening and swearing in a
> replacement.
>
> This is a constitutional crisis foisted by desperation and morbid desire to
> foist rule of thumb.
>
> We have checked through the constitution and the President has no power to
> unilaterally suspend the CJN.
> Section 292 of the amended 1999 Constitution is clear that the President
> can only remove the CJN with 2/3 of Senate resolution.
> To us what has been done is resort to self-help after the Court of Appeal
> issued an order stopping the trial of the CJN by the CCT presided over by a
> man answering charges in court over corruption allegations but still in
> office.
> The latest action is a clear suspension of the constitution and
> enthronement of full blown dictatorship .
> We reject the illegal suspension and demand its immediate reversal.
> The suspension is null and void and of no effect whatever .
> An emergency meeting of the Forum holds shortly on this total aberration.
> We call on all Nigerians to wake up to the reality that our democracy is
> now under threat and use all constitutional means to defend it.
> We must not surrender to this authoritarian rule .
>
> Chief E K Clark
> South South
>
> Chief Ayo Adebanjo
> South West
>
> Chief John Nwodo
> South East
>
> Dr Pogu Bitrus
> Midddle Belt
>
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