By SaharaReporters, New York
As President Goodluck Jonathan announced his approval of the controversial decision by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to suspend the President of the Federal Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) today in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, proposed to the members of the Bar that they begin a boycott of the courts until further notice. The boycott is to protest the decision of the NJC on Salami and the approval of the recommendation by the president.

The mood at the on-going National Conference of the NBA, sources at the conference told Saharareporters is “foul,” as members received news of Jonathan’s approval of what described as the “scandalous decision” of the NJC.

The NBA President, J. B. Daudu, told the conference that the NBA would boycott the courts to show its total objection to the controversial decision by the NJC, a council which many believe was acting out the script prepared for it by the outgoing and embattled Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Katsina-Alu.

After the NBA President spoke today in Port Harcourt, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, took the floor. The audience booed him. Adoke gave what many lawyers regarded as a “shameful” speech, which attracted their contempt. Adoke, who is becoming as embarrassing to the office of the AGF, just like his predecessor, Michael Aondoakaa, attempted to provide justification for the unnecessary crisis instigated by the CJN who was accused by Salami of allegedly interfering with the process of dispensing justice.

The NBA will debate and adopt Dauda’s proposal for the boycott on Thursday. Sources at the conference disclosed that the proposal would be unanimously adopted by the affronted bar. Some lawyers at the conference told Sahareporters that some judges have already indicated their preparedness to support the proposed action of the bar, so as to protect the judiciary from the “unprecedented abasement, which the outgoing Justice Katsina-Alu is prepared to throw the bench before he vacates office.”

More details on the conference follow.

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This Katsina Alu person should really be ashamed of himself. Finally, impunity is showing its head in places where it shouldn't even be close to.

Like Adoke like Aandoaka. This latest development is pointer and comfirmation of our initial though about the sincerity of the so called fresh air. For those of us who held patrotism as idelogy and frown at mediocrity are not suprise at the latest display of constitutional violation by the jonathan led curropt and decaying government.

As slow as this clueless clown could be, you can never catch him off guard in term of issue concerning covering the trace of his "free and fair election". Little wonder, they hunt an innocent man down, the last of his kind among a very rare breed of sincere justices and declare gangsterism as the new order. those who forget their past MUST be condamn to repeat it.

If truly the NBA boycotts all courts, they would redeem the image of the judiciary as the last defence-line of this polity