PaChukwudi44:


YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN SNOW

don4real18:

But Onnoneghen shouldn't do the honorable thing by resigning too, right?

akinblog:
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 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.

“The Constitution is clear about the procedure for suspending or removing the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The Chief Justice of Nigeria can only be removed on the recommendation of the NJC. SeeSection 153 (1), Paragraph 21 (a) of the 3rd Schedule and Section 292 (1) (a) (i) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999and the Supreme Court decisioninElelu-Habeeb v AGF (2012) 40 WRN 1.

“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.”

https://all-gists..com/2019/01/Onnoghen-Agbakoba-makes-revelation-against-acting-CJN-appointed-by-Buhari.html

Esseite:
The presidency is busy exonerating the president from any crime on grounds he only obeyed a court order, meanwhile Tanko, Danladi and its suspect ex-parte order are left to hang....

BrightEye:
This issue is going to cause war. Note that.

PaChukwudi44:


ratify gini? Is there a petition at the NJC against Justice Onnogen?

ehissi:


Bro there is no court order anywhere........Na Tribunal order na E Buhari dey obey. The "T" in CCT na tribunal. Buhari, from 1983 till date no dey obey court order. Either na Military Tribunal or Code of Conduct Tribunal or Electoral Tribunal.

Except them go change the name of Supreme Court of Nigeria to Supreme Tribunal of Nigeria, otherwise no way, Buhari no go obey am

nonsobaba:
There is. Onnoghen used his office to block the NJC from considering it by unilaterally cancelling their meeting that should have held last week before he was suspended. Like you posited, there are several senior justices that stand to benefit from Onnoghen's ouster and they will eagerly help to pull the plug on his tenure

mu2sa2:
Bode Rhodes Vivour - hahahahaahahh, effectively handing over the supreme Court to Asiwaju. If you know, you know!

SalamRushdie:
Tanko is fooling himself

koboko69:
Can this charge and bail SAN tell us exactly what the constitution says about "suspending" and not removing cos all this educated idiots dont seem to understand suspension and removal are 2 different things

deboysben:
The imposter Tanko is just being stupid by allowing him to be used by the power that be.

Let's just wait as things unfold

bluecircle470:


Nothing will unfold

Newboss:


Suspension is temporary removal. So it's still removal. If you suspend someone, you've removed the person, though not permanently

PaChukwudi44:

resign for what crime exactly?

BrightEye:
This issue is going to cause war. Note that.

koboko69:
Can this charge and bail SAN tell us exactly what the constitution says about "suspending" and not removing cos all this educated idiots dont seem to understand suspension and removal are 2 different things

PaChukwudi44:


okay.Shebi I told you folks you will know who is in charge of the judiciary by the end of this week

MyGeneration:
To me since corruption brought down Onnoghen why don't the opposition also investigate Tankos assets first to see if he is guilty of the same crime.

If he is not then let Onnoghen take a seat, it's obvious that the decision has been made.

akinblog:
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 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.

“The Constitution is clear about the procedure for suspending or removing the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The Chief Justice of Nigeria can only be removed on the recommendation of the NJC. SeeSection 153 (1), Paragraph 21 (a) of the 3rd Schedule and Section 292 (1) (a) (i) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999and the Supreme Court decisioninElelu-Habeeb v AGF (2012) 40 WRN 1.

“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.”

https://all-gists..com/2019/01/Onnoghen-Agbakoba-makes-revelation-against-acting-CJN-appointed-by-Buhari.html

PaChukwudi44:


Yeah.With the latest developments Mary Odili will be CJN by 2021

hucienda:
Is that not hypocrisy on the part of Tanko? He was part of the Justices who removed a judge at the state level for committing exactly the same offence he is now guilty of at the federal level.

1972xy:
And this one called himself a lawyer? All these lawyers turned politicians should go and sit down and stop all these their nefarious activities against the federal government.
One thousand Olisa cannot stop this government of apc from fixing Nigeria.
Enough is enough.

MyGeneration:
To me since corruption brought down Onnoghen why don't the opposition also investigate Tankos assets first to see if he is guilty of the same crime.

If he is not then let Onnoghen take a seat, it's obvious that the decision has been made.