₦airaland Forum

Tetehjewels:
[s]Part of the problem with our public debate is lack of knowledge of the facts driving the debate and a lot of sentiments. So on this issue I will try to explain what the President meant by the former CJN and his legal team using their privileged position to undermine the judicial process.

When this matter first came up, the CJN did not appear in Court. Why? He could not be served
personally because he rejected service! Now no other person in this country can try that and get away with it but the CJN did.

When in Court, his array of SANs filed a motion challenging jurisdiction of the CCT and insisted it must be heard. The CCT said it will hear it but the accused must first be arraigned before any question on jurisdiction and this is elementary law that the accused must first take a plea because that is how proceedings are commenced. The former CJN still did not show up and his legal team instead filed an Appeal.

Will he say he was not aware of proceedings that was
carried even by international media houses? Of course not but he was simply abusing his power by ignoring judicial proceedings! No other person can try that and get away with it.

While the appeal was pending, several Courts Ex-Parte granted injunctions restraining a competent constitutional tribunal from doing its work even though they had no appellate jurisdiction over the tribunal!!! Even the industrial Court granted a restraining Order!!! Industrial Court!!!!

All sorts of Courts were issuing all manners of Court Orders to protect the CJN who until now had ignored a quasi-judicial proceeding.
In other words, the continuous stay of the former CJN in office was impacting and impairing the ability of the CCT to do its constitutional job. Then the government brought a Motion on Notice seeking that the CJN steps aside and the President replaces him with the next in line.

Apparently, the same motion was brought Ex-parte and for ex-parte applications the other parties need not know. As we now know, that application was granted.

On Wednesday, we witnessed the unbelievable!!!! The legal team of the former CJN filed a Motion to Stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal however, there was no Ruling from the Lower Tribunal in the Record of Appeal! Ask any lawyer who has done any work at the Court of Appeal, an Appeal cannot be entered without a copy of the ruling or judgment included in the Record of Appeal because it is at the heart of the case at the Court of Appeal!

That is why you are there- to complain about the Ruling or Judgment! The only alternative is to apply under the Court of Appeal Rules to Depart from the Rules!
In this case no such application was made but somehow, the appeal was not only entered within hours with Appeal number given, the motion filed based on that appeal was slated for hearing!

Counsel to former CJN admitted to this irregularity and addressed the Court for 2hrs urging that his Motion for Stay be granted. Again, ask any lawyer, no ordinary Nigerian can get this because this procedure and practice is unknown to law. The Court however, reserved its ruling for 30th of January but granted an Interim Stay till that date which in the circumstances
was the right thing to do.

What is the point of all this? Evidently, the former CJN was using his position and office to push the entire judicial system beyond its limits in defense of himself. Whereas he alone was the first to admit that he forgot to remember that he had $700,000 in a domiciliary account. He alone could not explain why he had not touched his salary for 18 months! He alone was later
discovered to have $3,000,000 elsewhere!!! And someone says ending such acts of abuse of office to shield questionable acts is a fight against the judiciary?

Is the judiciary the harbinger of such? This is the same judiciary that produced erudite Jurists like Justice Niki Tobi, Justice Kayode Esho, Obaseki JSC and many many other eminent men!!! Can the conduct just
chronicled stand beside the records of such greats?

Please let no one ridicule the judiciary.
Finally, beyond our support for one political narrative or another, we must always ask ourselves what kind of Country do we want to build for ourselves and our children. PMB has done his part and even if he loses or wins in February, it does not change much because he has achieved almost all his heart desires. The man is 76!!! But we the young ones are still here with a country to live in!

If we support such behavior then we are sowing the seed for an unfair, unjust and ultimately a pariah state!

In sum, the CCT gave an Order which to my mind is the proper Order to give in the circumstances. Let no man be allowed to throw the weight of his office around in defense of himself especially a lawyer and in this case a respectable Justice of the Supreme Court.

The bench is a sacred chamber and a holy ground occupied by men, great in their courage, boundless in their knowledge and unsurpassed in their moral rectitude.

No one has said Onnoghen JSC is not but in the light of the allegations against him and his admissions/responses let him prove it just the way an ordinary man will because we are all equal before the law.

Ghani Rotimi ----- Lawyer!

Mynd44, Lalasticlala[/s]

Media trial again. The Constitution is clear on how a high ranking judicial officer like the CJN can be dealt with.

Until PMb is taken to court for failing to publicly declare his assets, all these na wash

NOETHNICITY:
Now since the CCT trial isn't a corruption trial why didn't the CJN honour their summon. Rather the corrupt CJN preferred running from one court to another using the might of his office to suppress the judicial process

Because they DO NOT HAVE THE POWERS TO SUMMON HIM! , Simple.

The law is clear on how he can be dealt with.

To me the biggest disappointment is the new acting CJN, not Osinbanjo. He has literally stabbed a fellow Supreme Court judge in the back.

Gbokz:
You lot appear to be moving mehd! if you think Buhari did the right thing on the CJN matter. Irrespective of the reasons given at face value, it was primarily about having a CJN that’ll yield to the needs of the FG/APC. Or why else did the new one have his own list of 250 election tribunal judges less than 24 hours in office? Onnoghen declined to play ball and they removed him on the smallest dirt they could find, without waiting for due process to take its full course

Hmmm. I never considered from that angle.

But truly the Bench should be very ashamed Justice Tanko. He is the biggest sellout in this whole debacle.

SalamRushdie:
i am just laughing at zombies !!! by Friday they will know how far

Wetin dey happen on Friday?

crisycent:
So many idíots here talking crap. Do you know what it is to be the CJN? There are SAN that have more than Onoghen.

Illeterates here think being a lawyer means you are a charge n bail.

But that's the point. Babalakin, Olanikpekun, Babalola and a host of there top shot lawyers are multibillionares (yes with a 'B'). However you can easily point to thier sources of income besides legal practice.

In the case of Onnoghen, it's not clear since it's been shown all his income cannot account for the €@@$$h seen in his accounts.

BTW I don't think anyone is really accusing him of fraud as such, which is why it's CCT and not the EFCC on his neck (at least for now).

THAT Said, I don't support this recent move by PMB government. They claim they acted thru a court order. My main grouse is the cherry pick of which court orders to obey and which to flout. It NOT healthy for our democracy

Na wa oo

deepwater:
They are speaking their language

You guess correctly, it can only be people from the waste side

alhassanyusuf29:
he most have an igbo blood in him

Lol! Which one I go believe naa??

Karatum:
Screw you. I am someone's mother too

The joke of the century.

Karatum:
Fixed

Unlike you I won't go down that route of involving the poor lady that sired a nonetity like you.. too refined for that.

Worse is you have Biblical verses in your dp yet have no qualms spewing trash to people's parents. The height of hypocrisy. I know say na u first reach Church 2moro.

You're as hopeless as they come. I spit on you once again.

Quote me a certfy the fact ur a nonetity. Done with u

numen:
You're dumber than him to have fallen for this trap.

Ppl are just damn too serious to identify simple humour!

Humour in the face of such tragic loss of life? Honestly between you and the karatum character I don't who is a bigger slowpoke. Spit.

The babe set Sha. See thighs.

Just unfortunate some screws upstairs are loose. BTW she take style resemble OP

It a well known tactic by these idiots.

They strip especially when it's a female, knowing full well that no decent lady will publicly grab a nakeed man.

ellalina:
Let get this straight

Buhari click like

Atiku click share

Lastly don’t buy votes this month or ever

It's not buy stuuuuupid clicking and sharing. Get ur damn PVCs and VOTE! DAMMIT!!

Fyi GEJ won most polls here on Nairaland in the run up to 2015,but we all know d final result

frosbel2:
Silly girl, people get fat for various reasons other than just eating. Some men would rather be with a fat woman ( not obese ) with a good character than a slim girl who acts like the devil. At least there is hope for the fat woman to lose weight while the slim woman with a bad character will probably become a single mum.

Sho! Pastor wetin u dey do here?

Jamariwolff:
I've always wondered what guys see FAT unhealthy ladies, sigh.

She doesn't look unhealthy naaa.

Check out those hips. Imagine having the wrapped around your waist while u. . . .

Sorry u can't imagine, ur a babe

2 things? Emmmmm

OP, what Abt issue of poor signal? Yes Glo will load with data, but to use am na wahala

^^ shuo!!

Na quarrell?

Ecosystem4u:
I hereby challenge the campaign directors of ATIKU/OBI to utilize this exclusive audio of Amechi to the fullest. Only this can do the damage.

Abeg go siddon. Your Atiku is among those sharing our money

xynerise:
Even if Buhari comes on Live TV and says his aim for re-election is to suck the country dry, a lot of people will still vote him. That is how brain dead a lot of Nigerians are.

Neither Buhari nor Atiku mean well for the country. We are just voting based on nepotism, religious and better of; assumption.

Nope hope for the nation as long as we remain blind to see the truth.

If only our people can see.

He said "all they do is share money in Abuja". That's the work of the average Nigerian politician. And yet you see people killing themselves over these opportunists

Hmmm

Too much porn these days. Y'all need help