₦airaland Forum

adonainana:
Young man your answer is Yes,GEJ was right to sack and remove SLS as CBN governor. In this instant case, Section 292 provides for the due process of removing a judicial officer, which is a recommendation of the NJC and a 2/3 vote by the senate. Those who drafted the constitution knew one day someone like Buhari will come to power and try to usurp the right of either the legislature or the judiciary hence the rigid process of first recommendation by the NJC, then the whole SENATE must vote to remove him.

Anything else apart from this is null, void, arbitrary, a sign of a deliberate an obvious disregard for the provisions of the constitution. The constitution is there for a reason, just like the immunity if gives Governors and Deputy Governors via section 308 from criminal and civil prosecution.

The constitution is supreme and is what we live and die for. You cant ignore or disregard it

iamJ:
baba is coming home to his base

north and the west have always had issues but the way apc has been able to make both sides happy is amazing

time to party hard

oya oooo, DJ sai buhari on repeat, loudest volume
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eyeview:
Some of us who were already of voting age during the military era,some of us who campaigned during the SDP and NRC era are really worried that this present generation of kids following APC may not grow to understand what democracy truly looks like

khingTony:
Yeah, he's going to have a meeting with the Afonja Zombies

zeuss:
Which court order? The appeal court ordered a stay of preceding in the matter by CCT......by the way moving directly to CCT circumvents due process.....

olamimd:
Kindly go and check the dictionary to know the difference between REMOVAL and SUSPENSION.

jchioma:
Op, point of correction, the Chief Justice of the federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, cannot be suspended.

Buhari's desperate attempt to remove the chief Justice is an exercise in futility. All lovers of democracy will resist it.

Wilstino:
My friend, let us be objective regardless of our political inclination and for the sake of the future democracy. This is a dangerous precedent. No one is arguing whether he did it or not, the point is that there is a constitutional process for removing CJN which the government has failed to follow, perhaps due to its ulterior motives. It is not about PDP but our democracy.

zeuss:
Buratai has choice estates in Dubai
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Even if the allegatiom u push is true
.....jungle justice is in itself a crime
......due process is tgr recourse of civil society the constitutional demands this.

Muscomide:
You miss the point completely. It isn't about Onoghen's alleged failure to fully declare monies held in accounts. Rather, the issue is about an arm of government (executive) and its attempts to erode on the constitutionally vested independence of another arm of government. (judiciary). If this is allowed to stand, it portends for us a gradual slide into dictatorship.

EponOjuku:
4 months ago, you Pdpigz were shouting Biafra or death and wishing for the destruction of Nigeria.

Today, you are crying that Nigeria is being destroyed.

You guys don't yet know what hit you.

modath:
Atiku should ask for a refund from the people that sold Dubai strategy to him, these people hate PDP deep down cos all they've succeeded in doing is make their affinity and obsession with corruption & grand larceny so obvious at each and every turn.

PDP won't stop making sane & fair minded people laugh, CJN admitted to "forgetting" to declare over $3m (and counting) and "they've turned that into a CONSTITUTIONAL MATTER" rather than distancing themselves from the drama, they have decided to carry it on dem head like expired gala for inside go slow...

Privettoall:
I wish NBA can sanction and deal ruthlessly Buhari's vice who is a member of the organisation. He should be the scape goat. Osinbajo should be punished.

9jatriot:
In the history of the world, the Nigerian supreme court is the only court that has granted permanent immunity for someone that prevents the person from being investigated, probed, tried or prosecuted.

Wike also publicly announced and thank Mary Odili for her role in ensuring he won his case at the supreme court. That is on record. The wife of the former governor of Rivers State must have a hand in all of the mess at the supreme court and should be suspended next.

If we do not kill corruption, corruption will kill us. Onoghen can now go and join the PDP formally. The different layers of the Dubai strategy are being torn apart, only a free and fair election on the 16 of February will determines who rules Nigeria not some underhand tactless by Saraki.

openmine:
including babachair lawal right? smh

Grass-cutting Scandal: Buhari orders prosecution of Babachir Lawal


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/306818-grass-cutting-scandal-buhari-orders-prosecution-of-babachir-lawal-osinbajo.html

seguno2:
Did the NJC recommend Ayo Salami’s suspension or not?
Did the NJC also recommend Onnoghen’s suspension
Can we try to reason small before we open our mouth to speak?

SalamRushdie:
even at that the recommendation must be ratified by 2/3 of the House

(f) is removed by the President:
Provided that the removal of the Governor shall be supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying that he be so removed (emphasis supplied).

https://www.legalnaija.com/2014/02/law-on-removal-of-cbn-governor.html

Privettoall:
Buhari has insulted not only the constitution, but every Nigerian, both alive and dead.

SalamRushdie:
What is GEJ as regard today's infarction of the constitution by Buhari ? Is that not part of the reasons GEJ was sent packing? so Buhari should prepare to be be also sent packing since you want him to follow all GEJs footstep

nymphomaniac:
Upon reading the shocking news that president Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the CJN Walter Samuel nkanu onnoghen on the advice of the NJC, I realized that this administration has no regard for the 3rd arm of government.

It is true that we lawyers have our share to blame by not speaking out early enough when he declared national security to be superior to the rule of law as well having kept quiet during this one-sided and loopsided anti-corruption campaign of this administration, but the impunity of Mr president has reached his peak.

It is clearly stated in the constitution the procedure for the removal of the CJN and failure to abide by due process makes such action a nullity.

I urge all lawyers to speak up against this autocratic order and in succession, do the needful by voting in someone who will uphold the sanctity of the rule of law and due process.

#Nymphomaniac

Cc lalasticlala mynd44

SalamRushdie:
even at that the recommendation must be ratified by 2/3 of the House

(f) is removed by the President:
Provided that the removal of the Governor shall be supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying that he be so removed (emphasis supplied).

https://www.legalnaija.com/2014/02/law-on-removal-of-cbn-governor.html

anjigirl:
The disgraced judge should be sent to jail he even said he forgot to declare the money,I don’t know how he is going to explain that to international organizations

SalamRushdie:
Absolutely nothing happened , the whole pronouncement by the Dullard is ultra vires and at best a null and void figment of his Daura imaginations. Onnoghen is CJN till he agrees to resign or is kicked out by 2/3 of NASS

Timmi:
These are a bunch of idiots the NBA, they should be the one canvassing for the removal of the CJN since the man admitted to violation of the statue and law that he had sworn to uphold. Rather, they gang up to support illegality. What a shame

EponOjuku:
Ngige disappeared
Dariye, Ladoja, Fayose impeached

Even under GEJ, they did the same thing to Justice Isa Ayo Salami the President of the Court of Appeal.

Nothing is gonna happen and all thieves are in trouble in this country.

(f) is removed by the President:
Provided that the removal of the Governor shall be supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying that he be so removed (emphasis supplied).

https://www.legalnaija.com/2014/02/law-on-removal-of-cbn-governor.html

SalamRushdie:
the ball is in Onnoghen court, only him can allow Buhari succeed ..he must hold a press conference and continue like nothing happend because in reality nothing happened

adanny01:
Way to go Buhari.

I never thought you had it in you to do the needful. Our laws have been turned upside down and loopholes have been found and created everywhere around the constitution.

The president who enjoys very detailed immunity from the constitution is not protected against criminal prosecution but Judges want to prevent themselves from all prosecution whether criminal or otherwise. Its wrong, the section of the constitution the judges are using to shield the CJN doesnot intend to give such kind of immunity to any Nigerian.

How can the CJN admit to a crime but is defended by Nigerians. Have we sold our conscience for tribalism and political affiliation?

For me, I would never support corruption or a corrupt individual.