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QuotaSystem:
If you know. You know.

I hope you wont be disappointed bro.Don't take your hopes too far.Those supreme court judges are tougher than you think and this case will either make or mar the judiciary

capitalzero:
the same wole that defended buhari certificate with 1 million SANs in 2015.

Does Buhari niwon have certificate? If he doesn't have, how do you describe wole then?

Let's see how it goes ..

CoolVoice:
So the Olanipekun is fighting for a corrupt CJN and calls it a fight for the future of Democracy! Jokers!

You guys are naive.If you catch a thief, you can't kill him because he stole.He has the right to defend himself.And if you don't have evidence, you might loose the case.You cannot thwert the Constitution by killing by killing him when the law hasn't take it course.The Constitution must be obeyed by everyone no matter who you are.If not, Nigeria is not an entity.
If the judiciary does not get this right,we are doomed for impending violation of the Constitution.We won't like the outcome when everyone says"Bleep the Constitution".

SEONaijaExpert:
That's what they always say they're fighting for to attract national and international pity.

What's democratic in defending an obvious looter? It's just baffling where our lawyers stand sometimes in court.

Well, it's not new, even Evans the kidnapper have a lawyer that represents him.

Get used to it.Law is law.Evans is entitled to a lawyer for defense.The youths of this country need to read their books with understanding.

davodyguy:
Nope, go and read the CBN act. That's where guys are getting it worth, all in a bid to justify Jonathan's action.

The CBN has a board, just like NJC, headed by CJN. Issues relating to discipline of members are exclusive of the board of CBN, same way NJC.

Jonathan acted ultra vires by claiming anomaly in CBN, same thing is what Buhari did

there are loopholes in nigeria law. but that do not mean an independent arm of government should harass other arms?

artofseduction:
Do u even know d implications of Onoghen going just like that?

SENATE PRESIDENT can equally wake up one day , manufacture one court Order and suspend the President?

He can tell us that he was only obeying court order.

This illegality must be restricted by all.well.thinking Nigerian.

If he is guilty of any charge, the rule of law must be followed to ascertain that.

Laws are Laws, without them we are savages.

Thank you my brother.Now I see a graduate that actually understood what he studied and why he went to study at the University.

davodyguy:
Wole has been one of the crooked SAN, Just like Ricky Tarfa.

Was he still crooked when he defended Buhari's fake certificate

political propagandists putting this country in disarray


check my siggy

Wole Olanipekun is a thief

CapitanPan:
No be so. Senate can't suspend President without a valid court order. CJN should be challenging the CCT exparte order that was the basis of his suspension. It was that same order that the President based his suspension on.

Both your president and the CCT has violated the Constitution and must be punished.Eve ate the apple as advised by the serpent.Eve got her punishment too.
Don't deceive yourself.I do know in law there is what is called judicial precedent. Senate president can cite this case as a basis.We should not thwert the Constitution or interpret it otherwise.
The Constitution is the only thing keeping us.Lets not give the impression that it can be changed to suit our thoughts at any given time.

PaChukwudi44:
Was he still crooked when he defended Buhari's fake certificate

Does Buhari have certificate?

hisexcellency34:
Wole Olanipekun is a thief

He defended Yar adua in 2007 election, which was the worst in the history of Nigeria

Anyone who ever thought such gross violation of the constitution was ever going to stand must be very naive.

Legalising such actions will completely destroy the judiciary and make it an appendage of the executive.This goes far beyond Onnoggen and party politics.It hits the core of the independence and integrity of the judiciary.

Mynd44:
The Supreme court is allowing Justice Tanko Carry out the functions of the CJN.


HMMMM

tanko was vice to onnogen and he could act in onnogen absence. It is not a big issue.

davodyguy:
He defended Yar adua in 2007 election, which was the worst in the history of Nigeria

wole is good at defending bad case
.buhari certificate, yaradua election and now onnogen. let wait for how it goes.

kahal29:
••• I wasn’t part of Abba Kyari meeting –Olanipekun

The Supreme Court has fixed Tuesday for the hearing of the suit filed by the Senate to challenge the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt on Saturday that the suit, being a constitutional matter, would be heard by a full panel of seven Justices of the Supreme Court.

It is expected that the Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, would not be on the seven-man bench, but he would be the one to pick the seven Justices of the apex court to hear the suit or assign it to one of the already existing panels.

Our correspondent learnt that the Federal Government, through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, had, as of Saturday, prepared its defence and would file it on Monday ahead of the Tuesday’s hearing.

“We have been served with the Supreme Court’s hearing notice. Our defence is ready and we will file it on Monday,” one of the sources, who pleaded not to be named, told one of our correspondents on Saturday.

The Senate’s lawyer, Mr. Paul Erokoro (SAN), could not be reached on Saturday, as his phone was switched off.

President Muhammadu Buhari had, on January 25, suspended Onnoghen on the basis of an ex parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal where the Federal Government had charged the CJN with six counts of non-declaration of assets.

The President had immediately sworn in the next most senior Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Muhammad, as the Acting CJN.

But the Senate had, in its suit filed on January 28, and marked SC.76/2019, asked the apex court to declare Onnoghen’s suspension, which was without the support of two-thirds majority of the Senate, was a violation of Section 292(1)(a)(i) of the Constitution.

It asked Supreme Court for an order reinstating Justice Onnoghen as the CJN.

The suit also asked the apex court to issue an order restraining the two defendants in the suit – President Buhari and the AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami – from continuing or repeating the violation of the Constitution and disregarding the power of the Senate in respect to the suspension of the CJN

The Senate, through its lawyer, Erokoro, argued that the President could not, on the directive of the CCT, suspend the CJN without the two-thirds majority of the Senate or appoint Muhammad as the Acting CJN without Senate’s confirmation.

I wasn’t part of Abba Kyari meeting –Olanipekun

Meanwhile, the lead counsel for the suspended CJN, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), says he did not hold any meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, on Thursday.


Olanipekun, who is a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, said he did not know if there was a meeting between Kyari and some persons representing Onnoghen.

Speaking with our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday, however, Olanipekun said if such a meeting held, he was not part of it.

The senior advocate added, “I have never met with Abba Kyari before. I only know him by reputation as the President’s chief of staff but I have never sat with him before. It is possible that some lawyers met with him but I was not among.”


Olanipekun, however, defended his decision to defend the suspended CJN.

He said he believed democratic institutions should be preserved and insulated from politics, vowing to continue to defend them.

The former NBA President said, “My decision to defend the CJN is not for personal gain but for the good of democracy. I strongly believe in the independence of the three arms of government and the rule of law.


“It is for the sake of democracy that I am taking up this case and when the case is over, I will speak extensively but for now, I will refrain from making further comments. Let it be on record that I, Wole Olanipekun, never met with Abba Kyari.”

Some lawyers were said to have met with Kyari last week in a bid to prevent the trial of Onnoghen before the CCT on Monday.


Culled From The Punch Newspaper


https://punchng.com/onnoghen-to-ask-cct-chair-to-disqualify-self-for-alleged-fraud/

President Muhammadu Buhari should have allowed the Justice Onnoghen case to lie low and save Nigeria from all this needless paper work, time consuming processes, political distractions etc

I know the Nigeria judiciary is corrupt and they bitterly frustrate him for the three attempts he made to contest the presidential election.

sweetilicious:
Both your president and the CCT has violated the Constitution and must be punished.Eve ate the apple as advised by the serpent.Eve got her punishment too.
Don't deceive yourself.I do know in law there is what is called judicial precedent. Senate president can cite this case as a basis.We should not thwert the Constitution or interpret it otherwise.
The Constitution is the only thing keeping us.Lets not give the impression that it can be changed to suit our thoughts at any given time.

What do you know about judicial precedent? Go and rest abeg.

PaChukwudi44:
Lol dream on bro.The decision was taken by a majority of the senate principal officers.

You no dey tire ni? After all your predictions on this CJN issue came wrong, you suppose to rest small na? Another disappointment loading for you.

capitalzero:
judiciary is an independent arm of government. cbn is not. cbn is directly under executive arm of government. judiciary us not under executive.

That's no excuse. Check section 11 of the Interpretation Act, it states that where ever the power to appoint is conferred on a person, the power to remove and suspend Is also given. The CJN is appointed by the president. Independence of the judiciary is about their function not personal like that of the Executive. Total immunity from prosecution world over is only enjoyed by the Executives and constitutional monarchs..

SEONaijaExpert:
That's what they always say they're fighting for to attract national and international pity.

What's democratic in defending an obvious looter? It's just baffling where our lawyers stand sometimes in court.

Well, it's not new, even Evans the kidnapper have a lawyer that represents him.

Make una get sense.. They are not challenging the charges.. They are challenging the sucking of the CJN by the president.

They want to know if it is constitutional. At least we are still in democracy.

asfrank:
That's no excuse. Check section 11 of the Interpretation Act, it states that where ever the power to appoint is conferred on a person, the power to remove and suspend Is also given. The CJN is appointed by the president. Independence of the judiciary is about their function not personal like that of the Executive. Total immunity from prosecution world over is only enjoyed by the Executives and constitutional monarchs..

the CJN is chosen by the NJC and recommended to the president for appointment.He is an appointee of the NJC and not that of the president.

Should we also say the President is an appointee of the CJN since he is the one that swore him in to office

CapitanPan:
You no dey tire ni? After all your predictions on this CJN issue came wrong, you suppose to rest small na? Another disappointment loading for you.

Bros abeg name just one of my predictions that came wrong.Just one!!!

CapitanPan:
What do you know about judicial precedent? Go and rest abeg.

You that know kindly educate us

straighttalk:
Filed by the Senate President or the Senate? Where did the Senate take the resolution?

Please, Reframe your topic to reflect the True Situation, Mr.

The Senate president on behalf of Senate took the matter for determination... The supreme court Judges Judgement will not favour the executive. So president buhari can't remove a CJN.

It is unconstitutional. Please don't quote me follow the judgement on Monday.

PaChukwudi44:
the CJN is chosen by the NJC and recommended to the president for appointment.He is an appointee of the NJC and not that of the president.

Should we also say the President is an appointee of the CJN since he is the one that swore him in to office

Brother do you really know what an appointment means? The CJN recommended to the president by the NJC correct, now the President has the prerogative to reject that recommendation since he is the one appointing him. Now looking at the famous Ayo Salami case, when the NJC recommended that he should be reinstated, the President refused.

emmykk:
The Senate president on behalf of Senate took the matter for determination... The supreme court Judges Judgement will not favour the executive. So president buhari can't remove a CJN.

It is unconstitutional. Please don't quote me follow the judgement on Monday.

Actually it was 6 out of the 10 principal officers of the senate that took that decision.It was a majority decision of the senate leadership and not that of the senate leadership alone.

asfrank:
Brother do you really know what an appointment means? The CJN recommended to the president by the NJC correct, now the President has the prerogative to reject that recommendation since he is the one appointing him. Now looking at the famous Ayo Salami case, when the NJC recommended that he should be reinstated, the President refused.

Bros the appointment of the CJN is clearly stated in section 231 of the constitution and involves the three arms of government.

The removal of the is also clearly stated in the constitution and it also involves the three arms of government.

There is no how buhari can win this case.Justice Onnoggen will most likely return as CJN on Tuesday

hisexcellency34:
Wole Olanipekun is a thief

At What point did he become a thief.

The last time I checked he was Buhari med counsel onbhisbcerrificate saga