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livelymatilda22:
Buhari or Jubril from Sudan? Confused wailing zombies

please send your account let me send you something so I can rest

drlateef:
What an illiterate you are? Onoghen was suspended, not removed. That's a lacuna is the law. The law does not talk about suspension. You must remember that the courts also make laws where they find a lacuna in the constitution. A former CBN governor was also suspended by Jonathan, it was argued that this was also not known to law. The difference here is that Jonathan did not rely on the law courts to make his pronouncement. He did it by himself, making himself the law giver. Yet nobody shouted and pulled down the roof. Buhari relied on the law court pronouncement, so he is better than Jonathan in that respect. The law court pronouncement has become the law as it is. That's why I call you an illiterate.

Problem with you APC members is that you all lack sense.

OP stated crystal what the Nigeria law says. Had it been you went to school, you should have known there are 3 arms of government. Executives, legislatives and judiciary. None of these 3 is above each other all got equal rights... That's what the law says. Now can judiciary suspend the executive? Can the executive suspend the legislative?

Mumu zombie apocalypse

Tetehjewels:
These are the words of the CJN himself when he gave absolute powers to the CCT when it comes to issues on false asset declaration at a ruling.

He never envisaged that one day he would fall victim to his own ruling.

Read and stop being a mental nuisance



Buhari acted within the boundaries of the law

if you don't have the neurological ability to understand the devolution power amongst the 3 Arms of govt and then I can't help you .. So do you agree that the Senate President can suspend the President? because that's what you are saying sir .

AllenSpencer:
Don't mind them

They can only wail online!


Cowards


Soldiers are on the street waiting for them to start an illegal protest. They be online writing their personal life Biography


God bless Chief Justice Tanko Muhammed

Lol , you've said it all bro.
They are nothing but online chest beaters.
Cowards just like their lord Cownu.
God bless our President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
Welcome on board Justice Tanko Muhammed.
God bless you too Chief Allen.

drlateef:
What an illiterate you are? Onoghen was suspended, not removed. That's a lacuna is the law. The law does not talk about suspension. You must remember that the courts also make laws where they find a lacuna in the constitution. A former CBN governor was also suspended by Jonathan, it was argued that this was also not known to law. The difference here is that Jonathan did not rely on the law courts to make his pronouncement. He did it by himself, making himself the law giver. Yet nobody shouted and pulled down the roof. Buhari relied on the law court pronouncement, so he is better than Jonathan in that respect. The law court pronouncement has become the law as it is. That's why I call you an illiterate.

you are the illiterate here... Why all APC supporters nor get sense

post=75123293:
It was speculative for some commentators to think that the CJN was being targeted so that he could be removed and replaced with someone who will work in the interest of the government in the February elections.
The most important question should be whether the CJN broke the law or not in failing to declare his assets.

After initially booking space, you have finally got a quick press release from Bashir to post on FTC so as to try to corrupt and sway public opinion, shey? We know all these gimmicks of propaganda, including repeating a lie until some start to believe. Continue with your FTC hunts for pecuniary gains while trying to sell your country into perpetual slavery by Jihadists. You hear!?

My people and freedom fighters who don't post for a salary to support their other business, listen and listen well. This is how full blown dictatorships start. They will always give a reason for their actions until later they stop giving one and remove all pretences. From Hitler to Stalin to Idi Amin to Abacha, and they always employ hundreds of paid, conscienceless propagandists like this guy, modath, passingshot, ngenekwenu, Corrinthians, deomelo and other enemies of the state.

It's just a month away. God is involved. He took care of Abacha. Nigeria shall be free!!!

Yaaaawwwwnnnn to the above.
We'll always ignore this particular wailer.
He's delusional, a sorry case!

jamace:
Can Buhari suspend/remove the Senate President? NO. Therefore, Buhari can not suspend or remove the CJN.

What Buhari could have done to be on the part of law was to bring up the criminal allegations against the CJN before the NJC and the NASS, and then lobby the NJC and the NASS to vote for CJN removal/suspension.

How I wish Buhari can develop this kind of balls towards the boko haram and killer herdsmen.

you get it now. this would have put him in a beetteer light than this nonsense breaking of the constitution that he is been encouraged to do

post=75124133:
Lol , you've said it all bro.
They are nothing but online chest beaters.
Cowards just like their lord Cownu.
God bless our President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
Welcome on board Justice Tanko Muhammed.
God bless you too Chief Allen.

You welcome my Honourable!

9jaown:
Federal government took The CJN to court.
He won them there.
He was suspended.
Why not suspend him before taking him to court, since the federal government don’t give a F*** about court Order.
Common sense is not common walahi

Are you aware the cjn suspend the meeting of the njc indefinitely so that he will not be remove or suspended? The president did the right thing here because I don't see how this man Can try himself because he had lost all moral standards. Or you haven't see the written apology? Is there anything like mistakes or forgotten in our law?

NkayStory:
..The same hammer wii certainly go round including landing on your head if you dont act

.What goes around comes around

Story story... What do you mean by act. Apart from our voters card, what other ways can you act in this country. That's if our vote will even count. Do you want to organize a massive protest so we can join you. A lot of ills have been happening in in this country and the men at the top saddled with power are all silent. What else do you expect. Just look at how our soldiers have been dying in numbers in the name of fighting terrorist and a lot of military generals that knows things about the politics been played with Boko Haram just kept quite. Make the hammer fall for everybody head.

post=75123293:
Those who have left the substance of the matter, which is non-declaration of assets, to embark on a wild goose chase must know that they are part of the problems of this country.
Those cheering the CJN have been busy trying to depict the issue as executive interference in another arm of government.
They are failing to realise an important fact that those who have the privilege of holding exalted offices in trust for the rest of Nigerians should lead by example.

It was speculative for some commentators to think that the CJN was being targeted so that he could be removed and replaced with someone who will work in the interest of the government in the February elections.
The most important question should be whether the CJN broke the law or not in failing to declare his assets.

One major and incontrovertible fact which has emerged from the controversy over the CJN’s alleged failure to declare his assets is his own reported admission that he made a mistake by forgetting to declare a number of his assets.
The number one judicial officer is also reported to have expressed ignorance about the time space within which he should have made the declaration.”


We are not talking of a magistrate or a high court judge but a judge of the Supreme Court, who happens to be the number one judicial officer of the land; we must forget sentiments and look at facts.”

The posturing of some South-South governors in defence of the CJN should be treated as treason since they swore to protect and preserve the constitution.

There was a country!

Wetin you for talk before

stephanie11:
@POLITICSNGR

The purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari is unequivocally unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and grossly indefensible. What General Buhari has done, putting it mildly, is a brazen coup against democracy.

The following 20 (twenty) points are worth noting:

1. The office of the CJN is not a ministerial or extra-ministerial position. It is a creation of Sections 230 (1) (a) and 231 (1) and (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) (subsequently referred to as ‘the Constitution’).

2. The Chief Justice of Nigeria is the head and symbol of authority of the Nigerian Judiciary. The Judiciary is neither an agency of the federal government nor a department in the Executive. It is one of the three Arms of Government and is established by Section 6 of the Constitution. The CJN is to the judicial arm of government what the President is to the executive arm. The three arms are co-equals and none is subservient to the other.

3. The President cannot appoint or remove the CJN unilaterally. The Constitution has explicitly stated the procedure for the appointment and removal of the CJN and no court, tribunal, president or other authority or person in Nigeria can derogate from, override or alter the said procedure.

4. By Section 231 (1) and (2) of the Constitution, the appointment of the CJN requires the compulsory involvement of the three arms of government. The President appoints the CJN on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) subject to the approval of the Senate.

5. By virtue of Section 292 (1) and Paragraph 20 and 21 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution, the CJN enjoys security of tenure and is not removable except within the strict procedure and for the specific reasons enshrined therein.

6. The CJN as a judicial officer can only be removed from office by the President acting on an address supported by two thirds majority of the Senate for his inability to discharge the functions of his office or appointment (whether arising from infirmity of mind or body) or for misconduct or contravention of the Code of Conduct. Anything contrary to this procedure is unconstitutional.

7. The NJC has not recommended the removal of Justice Onnoghen to the President. The NJC has not exercised its exclusive disciplinary control over Justice Onnoghen. Only the NJC is constitutionally vested with the power of disciplinary control, including power of suspension, over a judicial officer. In exercising that power, Section 158 (1) of the Constitution states that the NJC shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other authority or person. See the case of HON. JUSTICE RALIAT ELELU-HABEEB & ANOR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION & 2 ORS. (2012) NWLR (PT. 629) 1011 where the Supreme Court emphatically pronounced on the issue of how a judicial officer can be sanctioned.

8. I have perused the Certified True Copy of the enrolled ex-parte order made by the Code of Conduct Tribunal dated Wednesday, 23rd January, 2019. I find the said order extremely offensive to the Rule of Law. The Order seeks to achieve that which the Constitution has unarguably forbidden.

9. The enrolled order signed by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Hon. Danladi Y. Umar, and one other member of the Tribunal (Hon. Mrs. Julie A. Anabor), purports to direct Hon. Justice Onnoghen to ‘’step aside’’ as the CJN and Chairman of the NJC pending the determination of the Motion on Notice dated the 10th day of January, 2019. On the face of the said order, the name of the legal practitioner who moved the motion ex-parte is not stated. This is rather strange. Did the Tribunal suo moto (on its own motion) move the motion?

10. Interestingly, the same Tribunal sat on Tuesday, 22nd January, 2019 and adjourned to Monday, 28th January, 2019 to rule on the Preliminary Objection filed by Justice Onnoghen challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT to try him without recourse to the NJC contrary to the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of NGANJIWA v FRN (2017) LPELR-43391(CA).

11. The law is firmly settled that once the jurisdiction of a court or judicial tribunal is challenged, the only jurisdiction the court has is to determine whether it has jurisdiction. The CCT having been seized of the frontal challenge to its jurisdiction, could not have granted an ex-parte order on the 23rd of January, 2019 without determining whether it has jurisdiction. In the recent case of ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION v. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF LAGOS STATE (2017) LPELR-42769(SC), the Supreme Court restated this sacrosanct principle thus:
"There is no gainsaying that issue of jurisdiction is radical and a crucial point which when raised, is challenging the competence of the Court to hear and determine the case. Any proceedings conducted by a Court which does not have jurisdiction, no matter how well or brilliantly it was conducted is a nullity. See Dapianlong vs Dariye (2007) 8 NWLR (pt. 1036) 332. That is the more reason why when Court's jurisdiction is challenged, the Court must first of all assume jurisdiction to decide whether in very clear and unambiguous terms, it has or lacks jurisdiction. See State Dosunmu Mansion vs Halliburton Energy Services Ltd (2007) 2 NWLR [pt.108) 211; Nnonye v Anyichie (2005) 2 NWLR (pt. 910) 623. Per SANUSI, J.S.C. (p. 43-45, pp. D - A).

12. The CCT, without determining whether it has jurisdiction over Justice Onnoghen as required by law, proceeded to give a flagrantly illegal order purporting to suspend the CJN from office. That order, with the greatest respect, is reminiscent of the inglorious order given by Justice Bassey Ikpeme stopping further announcement of results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which crystalized into the criminal nullification of the June 12, 1993 election by the Babangida junta."

13. I have read the long statement made by President Buhari while swearing-in Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria. Buhari struggled unsuccessfully to justify his unlawful action by relying on the order of the CCT. The Constitution does not say that the President shall suspend the CJN based on the order of a court or tribunal. It is a desecration of our Constitution for Buhari to suspend Justice Onnoghen.

14. Those arguing that the President merely suspended the CJN and has not removed him are either oblivious of the law or willfully mischievous. The CJN is not an appointee of the President and does not hold office at the pleasure of the President.

15. President Buhari cannot suspend the CJN. The CCT cannot give an order directing the President to remove or suspend the CJN. The CCT cannot ask the CJN to ‘’step aside’’. This conspiratorial attack on the institution of the Judiciary is a dangerous precedent. Can a judge give an order suspending the President from office without recourse to the National Assembly? If the answer is in the negative, why should the President suspend the CJN whose tenure is constitutionally protected without recourse to the NJC and the Senate as prescribed in the Constitution?

16. The CCT Chairman, Danladi Umar, is himself a subject of a pending criminal charge filed by Mr. Festus Keyamo at the Federal High Court on behalf of the EFCC. The CCT Chairman despite the pendency of the criminal charges against him, has not stepped aside and has not been suspended.

17. Mr. Okoi Obono-obla, the President’s aide on Public Prosecutions, has not been fired, arrested or prosecuted despite his indictment by the House of Representatives for certificate forgery as attested publicly by the West African Examination Council. Mr. Maina is yet to be prosecuted for allegedly stealing pension funds. There are myriads of odiferous corruption cases against people and officials who are close to this President. Yet, Buhari continues to shield alleged criminals who are his friends and party men. Mr. Buhari is accusing Justice Onnoghen of failure to declare his assets, however, it is on record that Buhari’s own asset declaration is still shrouded in secrecy, and has not been publicly disclosed as he vehemently promised in 2015. What could be more hypocritical than this?

18. One wonders whether a single Justice of the Supreme Court can determine the decision of the court. The Supreme Court sits in a panel of five or seven Justices. If a decision of the Supreme Court is fraudulent procured through bribery, it is only logical to infer that all or majority of the members of the panel were bribed. I am not holding brief for Justice Onnoghen. However, given the delay that greeted the appointment of Justice Onnoghen, one is tempted to ask whether his security clearance was compromised?

19. Prof. Itse Sagay has stated that the suspension of Justice Onnoghen is constitutional because the President is empowered to remove the CJN for breach of the Code of Conduct. The learned silk, with respect, is turning the law on its head. That line of argument is inconsistent with the right to presumption of innocence enshrined in Section 36(5) of the Constitution. Justice Onnoghen has not been convicted by any court or tribunal. It is therefore preposterous to say that the President can remove him for violating the Code of Conduct.

20. Let me end by submitting that the atrocious, unconscionable, unconstitutional and duplicitous suspension of the CJN by this vicious and totalitarian regime has eroded our democracy. We all have a duty to oppose and resist it, not for the sake of Justice Onnoghen, but for the sake of posterity and the verdict of history. We should not excuse or defend this crass impunity because of political expediency.

Corruption must be tackled, but not by corrupt means. We must send a message to President Buhari that Nigeria is greater than him.

https://politicsngr.com/illegality-suspension-cjn-20-points-note-inibehe-effiong/

Deriving from a constitution supervised and imposed by northern Nigeria's military dictators to achieve certain objectives.

Na today?

Even if we ease out Buhari now, before long another Fulani Islamic zealot shall take over Aso Rock.

Nigeria's crisis continue.

BEST SOLUTION:

SPLIT NIGERIA. LET THE SHARIA NORTH HAVE ITS OWN COUNTRY.

REMAINDER FORMS AS MANY NEW COUNTRIES AS THEY WANT.

AllenSpencer:
You welcome my Honourable!

E go soon do vooom for you and that fake suyaman for eye. Buhari craze nah learner. You don't know history. Buhari would very soon realize he's just a normal, everyday person. Time is coming and positions will be switched and he'll be the one answering questions. You think the military belongs to him, rather than Nigeria? Or you think the military is the same as Buratai, his appointee?

SalamRushdie:
please send your account let me send you something so I can rest

You that haven't eaten wants to transfer money to someone else? These is the type of lies you people sell to Pdp zombies... Talk and fail just like Pdp.. Continue with your #10 per post job Biko..

livelymatilda22:
You that haven't eaten wants to transfer money to someone else? These is the type of lies you people sell to Pdp zombies... Talk and fail just like Pdp.. Continue with your #10 per post job Biko..

Drop your account number or shut up ..

SalamRushdie:
if you don't have the neurological ability to understand the devolution power amongst the 3 Arms of govt and then I can't help you .. So do you agree that the Senate President can suspend the President? because that's what you are saying sir .

You seem not to have been educated enough in school to know that the highest arm of government is the Executive and it has the power to sometimes act outside the judiciary and legislative.

Go back to school

post=75123293:
Those who have left the substance of the matter, which is non-declaration of assets, to embark on a wild goose chase must know that they are part of the problems of this country.
Those cheering the CJN have been busy trying to depict the issue as executive interference in another arm of government.
They are failing to realise an important fact that those who have the privilege of holding exalted offices in trust for the rest of Nigerians should lead by example.

It was speculative for some commentators to think that the CJN was being targeted so that he could be removed and replaced with someone who will work in the interest of the government in the February elections.
The most important question should be whether the CJN broke the law or not in failing to declare his assets.

One major and incontrovertible fact which has emerged from the controversy over the CJN’s alleged failure to declare his assets is his own reported admission that he made a mistake by forgetting to declare a number of his assets.
The number one judicial officer is also reported to have expressed ignorance about the time space within which he should have made the declaration.”


We are not talking of a magistrate or a high court judge but a judge of the Supreme Court, who happens to be the number one judicial officer of the land; we must forget sentiments and look at facts.”

The posturing of some South-South governors in defence of the CJN should be treated as treason since they swore to protect and preserve the constitution.

There was a country!

What will the president lose if he referred the case of the CJN to NJC as required by law? Are you saying the NJC will free the CJN despite the evidence against him? Are we saying all the judges in CJN are corrupt including Mohammed Tanko? The fact is that PMB lost the glorious opportunity to clean the judiciary by not following the laid down rule of the constitution.
While you guys are praising this wrong move, my take is that some people are afraid of PMB coming back for second term and they are deliberately misadvising him to make decisions that will make him look like a dictator and enemy of democracy to the international community.
At this stage, I don't even trust Tinubu, Oshimole, Sagay and Osibanjo. If they are part of the people that advised the president on this....they may be working for the opposition.
What you don't realise is that those criminals pretending to be close to PMB are afraid that if he get second term, he will make life difficult for them, hence they are sabotaging him by misadvising him. The sad fact is that even intelligent people like you failed to see this plot. We don't have to support every moves by PMB....just watch how this decision will back fired.
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Tetehjewels:
You seem not to have been educated enough in school to know that the highest arm of government is the Executive and it has the power to sometimes act outside the judiciary and legislative.

Go back to school

For we that are scientist plz don't post rubbish or lies. Because we are not in that field. I just googled it now and also check quora judiciary are the highest arm of government

SalamRushdie:
Drop your account number or shut up ..

Lol..Man, you can play the Pdp game on me.. Same way you people deceived Nigerians for 16 solid years.

SHARE FOR Justice Walter Onnoghen LIKE FOR Justice Tanko Muhammed

livelymatilda22:
Lol..Man, you can play the Pdp game on me.. Same way you people deceived Nigerians for 16 solid years.

Lolz APC has been deceiving Lagos state and assassinating who they want with political thug for years. That would be the future of Nigeria with APC

tollyboy5:
Lolz APC has been deceiving Lagos state and assassinating who they want with political thug for years. That would be the future of Nigeria with APC

Have you ever read where i support evils from politicians?

Justice Tanko Ibrahim has really embarrassed himself because in March 2018, he was among members of the NJC that ruled in the case involving the illegal removal of the Abia Chief Judge that "when a Chief Judge is removed illegally in a state, any judge who agrees to take over has committed an infraction which will attract disciplinary measures".
As things stand, the NJC may charge him for infraction

post=75123320:
No need to say more about this Corrupt soul of a judge anymore.
Interesting times are here. A civil servant, who has no other business and he has not touched his salary for years!!
He has forgotten $3m in account.
Bought 55 houses, and some youths whose future is being stolen away are crying!
There was a country!!

We are on our way to a New Nigeria, if you don't feel like going, you can stay behind.
God bless all the sane, good, honest and hardworking Nigerians.
God bless our President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
God bless Nigeria.

We humbly welcome Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed on board, as he Joins President MUHAMMADU BUHARI to take us to the NEXT LEVEL, AKA the land flowing with milk and honey. 
No more impunity in our land.
A new and better Nigeria is what we want. 
FVCK CORRUPTION and LOOTERS

It is easier been said. Buhari has no right to go against the rule of Law what we are saying here is not defending the cjn but protecting the future of our democracy. If we could back such unconstitutional act by the President what would happen if the president has interior motives. The judiciary is the highest of the arm of government and for posterity sake things should be done rightly. During the herds men saga we all knew how reluctantly the president acted. On the issues of restructuring, minimum wages, ASUU. people at times blame Senate for the failure of this government and explain while the Executives could not bypass the corrupt legislators but now find it very easy to bypass NJC and Senate this this time because election is around the corner. Let stop this omoluabi hypocrisy when my people are embittered in their own land by one of the ambitious founder of this APC bola hamed tinubu, a man that has taking Gold from us and gave us bronze, bribed our rulers made us people of no origin in Nigeria. But yet people worship him day by day. Every party is corrupt no one is clean but for the sake of democracy lets do the right thing. Executives cannot suspend judiciary if you have constitutional backing pls do post it lets learn from you instead of posting emotional argument

If a man has done wrong, such man should be prosecuted according to the law, any other thing outside the law is illegal and immoral. Why should the president break the law to punish a man that broke the law?

post=75123293:
Those who have left the substance of the matter, which is non-declaration of assets, to embark on a wild goose chase must know that they are part of the problems of this country.
Those cheering the CJN have been busy trying to depict the issue as executive interference in another arm of government.
They are failing to realise an important fact that those who have the privilege of holding exalted offices in trust for the rest of Nigerians should lead by example.

It was speculative for some commentators to think that the CJN was being targeted so that he could be removed and replaced with someone who will work in the interest of the government in the February elections.
The most important question should be whether the CJN broke the law or not in failing to declare his assets.

One major and incontrovertible fact which has emerged from the controversy over the CJN’s alleged failure to declare his assets is his own reported admission that he made a mistake by forgetting to declare a number of his assets.
The number one judicial officer is also reported to have expressed ignorance about the time space within which he should have made the declaration.”


We are not talking of a magistrate or a high court judge but a judge of the Supreme Court, who happens to be the number one judicial officer of the land; we must forget sentiments and look at facts.”

The posturing of some South-South governors in defence of the CJN should be treated as treason since they swore to protect and preserve the constitution.

There was a country!

Omon605:
Are you aware the cjn suspend the meeting of the njc indefinitely so that he will not be remove or suspended? The president did the right thing here because I don't see how this man Can try himself because he had lost all moral standards. Or you haven't see the written apology? Is there anything like mistakes or forgotten in our law?

We are talking about rule of law..
Due process..
He was taking to court.. you understand.
He proved he can’t not be trail by the court,
Cus his the CJN.
Is that one his fault..
The president was once in London, he stayed there more than the days a president was suppose to be out of the country.
Was he impeached! “NO”
The CJN was taken to court..
he won them in court. Why suspend him again.
That’s why I said
Common sense is not common.
Common sense will tell you..
Baba is doing this cus of the coming election.
No body is a fool..
This government ve prove to me, that Nigeria can’t not be one..
let the president continue what his doing Favouring one part of the country..
funny a enough he appointed an Hausa m.
CJN Hausa
Inec Hausa
Service chief Hausa.
Nd common sense that is not common.
Will not let some peopl know
What’s the president plan

Bukkiminat:
Y'all should please drink enough water. The so called 'lifeless president jubril' has done one small sontin, and y'all are beginning to say he is more wicked than Abacha . please drink water � .

It is true Uncle Bubu did not follow the due process.
It is true Uncle CJN did not declare some of his assets.
It is also true y'all are shutting your eyes to what led to his suspension.
It is obvious that Nigerians are biased in their reasoning, your hatred for buhari shouldn't let your brain go on strike, please!

please drink water.

By the way, thought y'all said Buhari is Jubril, please when exactly did this your confusion start, so I can know the severity of your confusion, the type of drug to give you and I can adjust your dose appropriately.

Sick!