A senior advocate of Nigeria,
Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has written a petition against the acting Chief Justice of
Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammed.
He made a revelation in the
petition, saying that the new CJN should not be in office.
Muhammed was appointed after
President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Walter Onnoghen from office.
In the petition sent to NigerianEye on Monday, Agbakoba said: “On 25th of January 2019 President Mohammadu
Buhari pursuant to an exparte order of the Code of the Conduct
Tribunalpurportedly suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice
Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghnen and purportedly swore in Hon. Justice Tanko Mohammed
as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria.
“Hon. Justice Tanko Mohammed is
fully aware of the state of law, yet presented himself to be sworn in by the
President. Incidentally, Justice Tanko Mohammed was a member of the NJC panel
that removed Justice Obisike Orji of the Abia state High Court for accepting to
be sworn in as Chief Judge by the Governor of Abia state without the
recommendation of the NJC.
“It is a matter of regret that
Justice Tanko Mohammed who participated in this process will lend himself to
this constitutional infraction. We pray the NJC to determine this petition in
line with the decision in Justice Obisike Orji by immediately removing Justice
Tanko Mohammed as Justice of the Supreme Court on grounds of gross misconduct
which has generated perhaps the most controversial crisis in Nigeria’s judicial
history.”
See petition:
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