Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria (SAN), has asked Justice Walter Onnoghen to quit the bench, following
the allegations leveled against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Falana stated this while
appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday.
“The government should as a
matter of urgency, lift the suspension on the Chief Justice, and since the
Chief Justice as so much on his own admitted that he did not declare his
assets, he should do the needful by calling it quits,” he said.
He stated that after the
suspension has been lifted, Onnoghen should quit the bench, because he has
already admitted that he failed in his duty to declare his asset as required by
the constitution.
Falana further argued that the
Executive and the Judiciary arms of government, have failed Nigerians with
regards to the case of Justice Onnoghen.
He said it was wrong for
President Muhammadu Buhari to have suspended him based on an ex parte order of
the code of conduct tribunal.
“You can’t fight corruption without
following due process,” Falana added.
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