Nigeria’s Minister of Youths and
Sports, Solomon Dalung, was on Monday shut out of an event at the Supreme Court
of Nigeria, commemorating a new legal year.
The event was also earmarked for
the swearing in of a new set of Senior Advocates of Nigeria.
Dalung who is a lawyer by
training, arrived the doors of the main courtroom of the Supreme Court around
10:10 a.m.
However, security officials who
had shut out a number of senior members of the bar and journalists from
entering the packed hall, politely turned back the minister.
Recounting his ordeal to some
concerned bystanders, Dalung blamed himself for the situation.
“The programme has started and
people are trying to say I am this or I am that but we are all lawyers, we know
that once the CJN has sat down you cannot enter. You can only plead but you
cannot show you are somebody here,” he said.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Governors of Sokoto and Kogi states were among dignitaries that attended the
ceremony.
that is good we must all show discipline and commitment
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