An Abuja-based constitutional lawyer, Barrister Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi has warned President Buhari on the dangers of his continuous delay in appointing Appeal Court Justices and FCT High Court Justice who have been recommended to him for appointment by the National Judicial Council [NJC}. Here is the full content of the letter cited on the lawyer's facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/jideobi.johnmary1/posts/1719427544782295



5th February, 2018

HIS EXCELLENCY,
THE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA [GCFR],
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI,
C/O: THE HONOURABLE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION,
ABUBAKAR MALAMI, SAN.
ASO ROCK VILLA,
ABUJA.
Dear Sir,
A DEMAND THAT YOU DISCHARGE YOUR DUTY UNDERS SECTIONS 238 (2) AND 256 (2) OF THE AMENDED 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
1. The above subject-matter refers.
2. I heartily bring you warm greetings from all Apostles of Democracy and Rule of Law Advocates.
3. Recall Sir, that on or around the 27th day of November, 2017, the National Judicial Council [called NJC henceforth in this letter], recommended to your Excellency Fourteen (14) Honourable [Federal, State and FCT] High Court Judges for appointment into the Court of Appeal as Honourable Justices of that Court.
4. Further recall Sir, that around the same period also, the NJC recommended twenty (20) gentlemen to be appointed into the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory [henceforth herein called FCT] as the Honourable Judges of that Court.
5. The NJC having discharged its duty by making those recommendations [after a detailed scrutiny and background security check of the candidates], the ball shifted to your court to do the needful by appointing the recommended candidates.
6. However, it is becoming worrisome that more than two (2) months after the said recommendations, Your Excellency is yet to discharge your crucial role under our Constitution. When it is remembered that the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria still has a determinative role to play in this Trinitarian process [recommendation-appointment-confirmation], it would no longer be difficult for one to agree that two (2) good months [and still counting] is awfully long for Mr. President to discharge his constitutional duty as it pertains to this matter.
7. It bears no reminding that what informed the recommendation by the NJC in the first instance was/is the compelling need for existing vacancies in those Courts to be filled so that the arduous works of those Courts would not suffer any neglect to the incalculable detriment of the entire system regard being had to the pivotal importance of justice administration in every democratic experiment such as ours.
8. We are informed by multiple media sources that Your Excellency is taking his time in making these appointments with a view to conducting a thorough background scan of the candidates. This [if true] we believe is totally wrong as it is lacking in any constitutional foundation. That task solely belongs to the province of the NJC which that august body has discharged regarding the candidates before recommending them to Your Excellency.
9. It is in the above premises [and ably guided by our laws as they currently stand] that I am constrained to GIVE NOTICE to Your Excellency that in the event you fail, refuse and or neglect to immediately discharge your constitutional role within TWENTY-FOUR (24) HOURS of the receipt of this demand letter, I shall have no further recourse to you as I am entitled to thenceforth assume that Your Excellency has lost the capacity to discharge the manifold constitutional duties of your highly exalted office and in consequence would proceed with aplomb to move the Courts of our land to so declare you OR compel you to discharge your constitutional duty and grant other consequential reliefs as to swiftly put an end to the governance crises your dereliction of duty under consideration is wont to infamously foist on the already beleaguered system of ours.
Do graciously accept, Sir, the warm assurances of my highest esteem.
Yours faithfully,

JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, Esq.

Ghen ghen...

Everybody don tire for Buhari..Nigerians reject Buhari.

Hope this case will not be reviewed when some of the appointees have gone over the other side