"The case of the CJN is totally different. Only the NJC which he chairs can discipline him, and if he refuses to call an NJC meeting whereat he sets up a panel to investigate - after hopefully stepping aside for the duration - the nation is stuck. But enter Section 231(4) of the Nigerian Constitution, which empowers the President, who, if he determines that the CJN "for any reason" - presumably moral reasons - cannot discharge his duties, he can be suspended".
Laws are not sacrosanct. When laws are tested and found not to be for the peace and progress of the society, they are resisted(disobeyed)and changed.
During the time of slave trade, buying and selling of blacks was lawful, so also the discrimination against blacks in the apartheid era South Africa, but these were bad laws, which were resisted(disobeyed)and changed.
Anyway, the drafters of the legislation under reference did not envisage the emergence of a highly nepotistic President who would remove highly placed officials from other ethnic groups on mere allegations to pave way for people from his ethnic group, while ignoring allegations against people from his ethnic group.
CAO.
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