A Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has reacted to insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen in a bid to rig the forthcoming presidential election.

Speaking with DAILY POST, Mohammed said there was no proof linking Onnoghen’s suspension to the alleged move to rig the forthcoming election.

The lawmaker stated that Onnoghen was not above the law, hence should be suspended since there was a “prima facie evidence’ against him.

Mohammed said: “As far as I’m concerned, there is a prima facie evidence against Onnoghen and when you have such evidence, that is all you need to suspend the CJN, he is not above the law. There is nowhere in the Nigerian constitution that the CJN is above the law.

“If Buhari succeeds in rigging the forthcoming election, it will not be the first time, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua have all done it and successfully got away with it. Until the evidence is clear and incontrovertible, you can’t explain that he was planning to rig the election by suspending Onnoghen.

“Mind you, before Onnoghen was confirmed, there were lots of controversies, the government was very reluctant to swear him in for a number of reasons which were not challenged. If he thinks because he comes from the South-South and is a Senior lawyer, nothing can touch him then that is sheer nonsense.

“If he thinks he is above the law because he is a lawyer and has risen to the height of the CJN, then we are talking nonsense and this is anarchy and such can never exist side by side with democracy.”



http://dailypost.ng/2019/01/29/onnoghen-suspension-cjn-legal-junaid-mohammed/

we know.. only supporters of corruption will disagree

Junaid has been a critics of Buhari lately but his stance on suspension of onnoghen will throw confusion in the camp of wailers on whom to support.

Let me see how PDP and iPod miscreants who've been licking this man's balls lately over his criticism of Buhari react to this.

ORIENTATION101:
Junaid has been a critics of Buhari lately but his stance on suspension of onnoghen will throw confusion in the camp of wailers on whom to support.

Exactly! I'm waiting to see how his little minions, who recently exalted him to a god status, respond to this.

madridguy:
Enemy of progress will soon tagged him supporter of tyranny.

How? The same man whom they worshipped just yesterday?

ORIENTATION101:
Junaid has been a critics of Buhari lately but his stance on suspension of onnoghen will throw confusion in the camp of wailers on whom to support.

Just a northerner supporting another northerner. Even if Atiku wins (he’s not going to win though), he won’t remove Tanko. Northerners are not as divided as their politics suggest.

This region of the country is cursed. See what a medical doctor is saying... Quota system is such an evil.

That's a dummy talking, a dummy like Buhari

Obasanjo rigged, Yaradua rigged and GEJ also rigged abeg let Sai Baba rigged too. No double standard

Boss you go fear PDP e-miscreants and their wailing ways

Corrinthians:
How? The same man whom they worshipped just yesterday?

If Buhari succeeds in rigging the forthcoming election, it will not be
the first time, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua have all done it and successfully
got away with it. Until the evidence is clear and incontrovertible, you
can’t explain that he was planning to rig the election by suspending
Onnoghen.

That mean what Obasanjo can do, buhari can do it better.

God bless president Muhammad buhari

Corrinthians:
Exactly! I'm waiting to see how his little minions, who recently exalted him to a god status, respond to this.

anybody that support buhari suspension of CJN will recieve heavy backlash. this one is coming from their new found love threw them into state of confusion thats why they avoid the thread like leprosy

bastardmod:
This region of the country is cursed. See what a medical doctor is saying... Quota system is such an evil.

Corrinthians, come see one

The same man they worshipped few hours ago is now a devil

Hahaha I'm yet see any nyamuri flat.head commenting.. their saviour has thrown them into confusion

They will soon abandon him like how they did to the hunchback bleaching pigdiot cownu for a Hausa/Fulani they love to hate

Second class citizens, asslickers!

Junaid of all people?? Make I no talk wetin dey my mind, abeg na Junaid make you face oo, no be me talk am, na one archenemy of bubu talk am.

Nonsense!

The NJC and courts will do the needful.

Buharists are stubborn goats!!

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kahal29:
A Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has reacted to insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen in a bid to rig the forthcoming presidential election.

Speaking with DAILY POST, Mohammed said there was no proof linking Onnoghen’s suspension to the alleged move to rig the forthcoming election.

The lawmaker stated that Onnoghen was not above the law, hence should be suspended since there was a “prima facie evidence’ against him.

Mohammed said: “As far as I’m concerned, there is a prima facie evidence against Onnoghen and when you have such evidence, that is all you need to suspend the CJN, he is not above the law. There is nowhere in the Nigerian constitution that the CJN is above the law.

“If Buhari succeeds in rigging the forthcoming election, it will not be the first time, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua have all done it and successfully got away with it. Until the evidence is clear and incontrovertible, you can’t explain that he was planning to rig the election by suspending Onnoghen.

“Mind you, before Onnoghen was confirmed, there were lots of controversies, the government was very reluctant to swear him in for a number of reasons which were not challenged. If he thinks because he comes from the South-South and is a Senior lawyer, nothing can touch him then that is sheer nonsense.

“If he thinks he is above the law because he is a lawyer and has risen to the height of the CJN, then we are talking nonsense and this is anarchy and such can never exist side by side with democracy.”



http://dailypost.ng/2019/01/29/onnoghen-suspension-cjn-legal-junaid-mohammed/

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What a HUBRIS!

"No doubt, that is the proper interpretation. But is it the right disposition for our country? -Buhari"

Buhari knows damn well that his action today violates the constitution as he confirmed in the statement above. He just doesn't care. All pretenses are gone. He has morphed into a civilian dictator, his government into a civilian tyranny.
For him and his cabal, political survival and faux patriotism in the service of that survivalist agenda trump the constitution.
Unless this man is shown the door, this is officially the death of this already troubled democratic project.

Without a constitution as a binding, constraining frame of reference and without the constitutional protection for the separation of powers, there is no democracy.