The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Monday adjourned indefinitely, the trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen over an allegation of non-declaration of his assets, slammed against him by the Federal Government.
The indefinite adjournment by the Tribunal followed an application in that direction by the prosecution counsel, Musa Ibrahim.
“Ordinarily, the matter was adjourned till today for hearing of the preliminary objection of the defence, but in view of the order of the Court of Appeal for stay of proceedings, we are asking for an adjournment, pending the hearing and determination of the matter before the Court of Appeal,” Ibrahim told the Tribunal.
Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), who represented Onnoghen at Monday’s proceedings did not object to the application for adjournment but demanded a record of proceedings in the matter.
Consequently, the Tribunal, headed by Danladi Umar Yakubu adjourned the matter sine die (indefinitely), pending the judgment of the appellate court.
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division had, last week ordered CCT to stay further proceedings in Onnoghen’s trial pending its ruling on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.
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The three-member panel of the appellate court gave the order after taken submissions from counsel in the application filed by the CJN seeking a stay of proceedings of the trial at the Tribunal.
Onnoghen had in the application filed on his behalf by his counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), asked the Appeal Court to restrain the CCT from going ahead with the trial slated for January 22, 2019.
He also asked the court to stop the suit requesting him to step down as the CJN.
The Federal Government had slammed a 6-count charge on the CJN bordering on failure to declare his assets.
Recall that, in a split judgment of two to one, the Tribunal refused to obey the orders of courts stopping the trial at the Tribunal, saying they were null and void, since the CCT is a unique creation of the constitution and as such cannot be subjected to the orders of the high court and industrial court being courts of equal jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria has joined several other legal practitioners in condemning the unconstitutional act by the President.
FIDA, in a statement by its Communications Officer, Akubeze Okocha noted that the action of the President signals a total disrespect for the rule of law and in turn the fundamental human rights of the citizenry.
“This is not only distressing, it is absolutely objectionable,” adding that the due process for the removal of the CJN is by recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC).
FIDA then called for the immediate withdrawal of the suspension of Justice Onnoghen in order to avoid further crippling the independence and effectiveness of the judiciary.
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WHY BUHARI MUST RESIGN !!!
1] 15 SANs Defended BUHARI On A Certificate He NEVER Had and There was no call for Buhari to Resign. Yet Buhari is fighting corruption!
2] Buhari has forged WAEC certificate on 2 different occasions; in 2015 and 2018, and there are no calls for buhari’s resignation. Yet buhari says he is fighting corruption. Is forgery not a crime? Is forgery not corruption? Why are there no calls for buhari’s resignation?
3] Buhari lied under Oath that his Certificate was with Military Board, which the Military denied and There was no call for Buhari to Resign and Buhari says he is fighting corruption.
4] Buhari claimed to have sat for the Cambridge Syndicate Exams in 1961 and in 2018 Buhari turned round to Present an Attestation certificate for another Exam body WAEC that has no relationship with Cambridge. Yet no one called for Buhari to Resign and Buhari says he is fighting corruption.
5] Till this day Buhari has Presented NO WAEC Certificate to INEC, even after receiving an Attestation, and his supporters find nothing wrong with that or …….the Mobs calling for CJN’s resignation. ….and Buhari says he is fighting cortuption.
6] Daily Mirror, a UK Daily revealed that Buhari having numerous Bank Accounts in UK where £250,000 grants are paid to him and his children’s school fees are paid in various UK Universities. These are undeclared assets. Yet All we knew was that Buhari has 150 cows, a brick house and a mud house. Yet there are no calls for buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
7] Show me the asset declaration of 2015 of Buhari stating the Buhari had $157,000usd which his son used to buy power bike? All we knew was that Buhari has 150 cows, a brick house and a mud house. Yet there are no calls for buhari to resign and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
8] Show me the asset declaration of 2015 showing that Buhari had N2.5billion naira which his wife Aisha had claimed that her Adc has stolen. All we knew was that Buhari has 150 cows, a brick house and a mud house. Yet there are no calls for Buhari to resign and Buhari is still fighting corruption.
9] Show me the asset declaration that Buhari had previously owned keystone bank and 9Mobile in 2015. All we knew was that Buhari has 150 cows, a brick house and a mud house. Yet there are no calls for Buhari to resign and Buhari says he is fighting corruption.
10] ……But the CJN Onnoghen, who forgot to declare the domicillay account he opened in 2011, in 2012, but rather voluntarily and without pressure from CCB declared in 2016, is now SUDDENLY a corrupt CJN in 2019, JUST ONE MONTH TO ELECTION. Yet there are no calls for Buhari resignation and buhari says he is fighting corription.
11] Meanwhile, The acting CJN appointed on Friday 25th jan. 2018, has 32 children and over N1.3 billion in his account as at today. How did he come about such money that far exceeded his total salary since he became a judge
12] Even among the 250 appointees, Buhari appointed 10 Dead, Retired Judges Among Newly Appointed Election Petition Tribunals’ Members. Why does buhari love associating with the dead? The other day he gave 8 dead people federal appointments. Yet there are no calls for buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
13] Falana wanted NASS to probe Buhari for unconstitutional withdrawal of $496million from excess crude account, this has not happened. Yet there are no calls for buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
14] As Petroleum minister, buhari has drained Excess crude account on 4 different occasion in 3 years, 7months and set aside N50billion NNPC account to himself. Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
15] Why were journalists barred from covering 2018 budget presentation by Buhari? Why was there no consultation before presentation of 2018 budget, between the executive vs MDAs and NASS. Till now, Buhari cannot account for N11trillion of 2016, 2017 budget. Where is the money? Yet there are no calls for Buhari to resign and Buhari says he is fighting corruption.
16] Just about 10% of 2017 budget had been implemented yet Buhari had sought N8.612trillion for 2018 budget. The public does not know what has happened to funds meant for 2018 budget. Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
17] CBN confirms Buhari gov’t withdrew $3.2bn from NLNG dividend account in 3 years. Where is the money? Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
18] FG spend N3.5million monthly to feed El-Zakzaky. This money is noted to be spent daily right now. El-Zakzaky’s family had comfirmed that this was a lie but his wife and children cooked for him daily and sometimes they had no money to buy food. Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
19] Where is the N10.9bn naira budgetary allocation for Aso Rock clinic. This money could fund the clinic and all public hospitals in Nigeria but Buhari’s APC Cabal looted it. Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
20] Buhari-Osibanjo School feeding programme cost $1.8million USD a day (N66billion spent already). Where is the food? Yet there are no calls for Buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
21] Buhari’s cronies such as Oshiomole his party chairman has a N311 million naira fraud case in court presently. Lie muhammed has N2.5million naira fraud case in court presently, babachir, oke, baru, maina, Ganduje, Daura, abba kyari, etc., have all been indicted for corruption but Buhari has refused to jail them. There are no calls for buhari’s resignation and buhari says he is fighting corruption.
22] ETC.,
CBN confirms Buhari gov’t withdrew $3.2bn from NLNG dividend account in 3 years.
a. BUHARI HIMSELF IS ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT
b. BUHARI HAS NO INTEGRITY
c. BUHARI IS A CRIMINAL (….for forgery)
d. BUHARI IS NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
e. BUHARI HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW
f. BUHARI HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF NIGERIA
g. BUHARI HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS OF NIGERIA
h. BUHARI DOES NOT FOLLOW DUE PROCESS
BUHARI MUST RESIGN !!! His cabal must be disbanded!
NIGERIA CANNOT HAVE 2 CJNs
0. Buhari and his cabal have systematically and strategically destroyed nigeria’s democracy and it’s democratic institutions as recognized by our Constitution. Buhari has destroyed the fabric of our nation.
Nigeria will soon be no more if we allow Buhari to escape with this one too.
1. Suspension of onnoghen is illegal, unconstitutional, unapproved, dictatorial and a desperation to cling to power in 2019.
2. The judiciary is an arm of the governemnt, just like the Senate and the house of reps. If Buhari by prescription cannot remove or suspend the Senate president (though he attempted and failed, thanks to saraki’s ingenuity), cannot remove or suspend the speaker house of reps, why should it then be legal to suspend or remove CJN without obeying the rule of law and following due process?
3. Buhari was elected by the nigerian people. Buhari must be made to respect our democratic institutions. This is not a military regime. Buhari must respect our senate, house of reps and our judiciary. Buhari is killing our democracy and we are now sliding Into dictatorship. This cannot be tolerated anymore.
4. Buhari is NOT the constitution of Nigeria.
5. The constitution of Nigeria Is supreme and buhari Is not above the constitution of nigeria. The people of Nigeria elected Buhari as president and the constitution of Nigeria made him president. Buhari cannot ignore the constitution which made him president today.
6. We cannot have 2 CJNs. It is unconstitutional. There is no provision for 2 CJNs in the nigerian constitution. There is also no constitution crisis here. Onnoghen is still the CJN. His suspension by Buhari is invalid according to the Constitution. The constitution of Nigeria is very clear on this.
7. Appointment of acting CNJ is also illegal, unconstitutional and unapproved. The Nigerian constitution is also clear on the appointment of the CJN. Note that the appointed acting CJN is a former judge of the sharia court (I wonder when sharia became democratic….!)
8. President Buhari is an ELECTED president of the federal republic of Nigeria.
9. ELECTED president Buhari MUST:
i. OBEY THE RULE OF LAW
ii. OBEY AND FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION
iii. OBEY THE APPEAL COURT which is part of an arm of government.
iv. FOLLOW DUE PROCESS
10. The establishment of these arms of governments and institutions in our democracy were intended to check the elected president and tame the excesses of the elected president, In order to prevent the elected president from becoming a dictator.
11. If these institutions fail to defend and preserve itself and our democracy, especially from the dictatorial tendencies of AN ELECTED president buhari, then Nigeria is already a failed state and the country can as well break up / divide.
Therefore, There is no need for the existence of a country called Nigeria anymore.
Buhari has killed, looted, caused hunger, pain, sufferings, persecuted many already.
Buhari appointed 10 Dead, Retired Judges Among Newly Appointed Election Petition Tribunals’ Members
WHAT IS CJN’s CRIME?
It is apc’s handwork to use social media to blackmail all political enemies. Buhari’s APC is made up of clueless but professional criminals whose sole responsibility in the past 4years had been to persecute all their political enemies.
0. CJN:
i. is a successful professional
ii. Practiced law for 39years now
iii. Is a constitutional lawyer
iv. Is a justice
v. was not a poor man when made CJN
vi. Has never be caught or tried in any court for criminal offense.
Constitutional lawyers are among the richest.
Are lawyers forbidden to do business? Is it a crime for lawyers to do business?
1. Buhari’s apc presents CJN’s money in his account to the public as if the man stole the money from their treasury or from nigeria’s, because they think that we will fall for large sums of money. Yet, there is still no evidence that he stole the money.
2. they deny the fact that this is a justice who has practiced law for more than half of his life.
3. Where is the evidence that this man stole the money that they froze in his account? They have no moral justification to freeze his account when there are no evidences.
4. What moral authority does Buhari’s apc have to expose CJN’s bank and amount therein, to the public? Was it to buy the sympathy of Nigerian in this election season?
5. Was CJN caught in any corruption scandal like Ganduje, lawal, maina, baru, etc? What is the FG’s basis for publicizing CJN’s bank account and money therein? Buhari had shared from dasuki’s loot. Remember when Buhari said that he got 2 jeeps and not $300,00usd from dasuki. Today dasuki is in prison and Buhari is president.
6. Where is the law that categorically states that undeclared assets are automatically stolen or looted assets? If there is such a law, then buhari with his family members must be held accountable for keystone and 9mobile and Buhari’s wife (Aisha buhari) must be made to explain the where about of N2.5 billion naira in which her ADC stole. Buhari and his son must also be made to account for the power bike his son bought @ $157,000 usd, when we all know that Buhari had only 150 cows.
7. Why is Buhari’s APC publicizing and persecuting the CJN as if he was caught looting? When all we know is an undeclared asset, ……and other looters are running free in the state.
8. Who will want to declare all his assets to such a corrupt government like buhari’s apc? You declare your assets they loot it for you, you don’t declare your assets they still loot it from you, just to force you to decamp to their useless, clueless corrupt apc. Abacha looted Nigeria dry, buhari came back to recover Abacha’s loot. Today, Abacha’s loot has been relooted by buhari and his APC.
9. a. You criticize their bad policies, they call it hate speech
b. You rebuke them for nepotism, tyranny, bigotry, marginalization, etc, they label you as a looter.
c. You refuse to join them, they send EFCC after you.
d. You loot and then join them, they declare you a saint.
e. Meanwhile the real people fighting corruption are constantly being persecuted, such as Former TETFUND executive secretary Abdullahi Baffa, who says that he was sacked due to his refusal to offer part of the money meant for tertiary institutions to education minister Adamu Adamu, meaning that education minister demanded N200million naira bribe from him.
10. They said that they noticed that the CJN did not declare all his assets. This according to them, is his only crime. To be a logical, it means they noticed that he had more than what he declared and that is all. There are no evidences that he looted nigeria’s money like other ‘saints’ have done and his sincerity has tortured them so much that they don’t believe how he could be so sincere.
11. The CJN is a very busy man, The CJN sincerely confessed that he forgot. When did forgetfulness become a crime? When did forgetfulness start making someone a felon. All of us should be in jail right now because we have forgotten things a million times in our lives. Onnoghen opened domicillary account in 2011, he was supposed to declare it in 2012, however, he forgot but declared it in 2016 without being pushed to do so. He was interrogated by CCB with the question, “you did not declare your domicillary in 2012. ..” and his answer was, “yes…..but I declared it in 2016.” It is this clause that the CCB, Buhari and his corrupt cabal are using to persecute him. Onnoghen had declared his domicillary account in 2016. The allegation of false declaration of asset is in itself false and a lie.
12. Notice that Buhari’s APC did not realize that the CJN did not declare all his assets until one month to election, why? Why didn’t they verify him before confirming him as CJN? Now we see that FG is at fault. FG IS WRONG!
13. while FG is yet to answer these questions, they persecute him. They persecute the CJN because he is a southerner and a sincere man who is unwilling to make a deal with the devil to declare Buhari winner of 2019 election when he Rigs election, bearing in mind also that buhari is not qualified to contest in this election because he is a criminal. Buhari has forged waec certificate on two different ocasaions in plain sight of all Nigerians and nothing has happened.
14. Meanwhile, The acting CJN appointed on Friday 25th jan. 2018, has 32 children and over N1.3 billion in his account as at today. How did he come about such money that far exceeded his total salary since he became a judge
15. Osibanjo says that the Buhari is not aware of CJN’s blackmail. Of course Buhari is not aware because Buhari is now a weak old senile retired general, who now relies on the cabals to run the government and the country for him and run his life too. He also has hearing problem and comprehension problem. One would need to repeat himself/herself a million to him. His attention span is now a fraction of a second. His speech is not coordinated. Old age and senility has eaten up buhari.. We saw all these in “the candidates” moderated by kadaria Ahmed, at a town hall meeting on 16th jan, 2019. Watch the video on YouTube again……so appalling and woeful!
16. Buhari slips, slumps and faints during campaigns because he has no strength left. He is old and weak. Watch how he calls delta state APC Gov. Candidate, “presidental candidate.” Despite being corrected many times. Buhari cannot be aware of anything anymore. The cabal is now running the country.
SHAME ON BUHARI AND HIS CORRUPT APC. ONE DAY, NIGERIA WILL BE SAVED FROM THEM!
APC led Federal Government has achieved aims and objectives of suspending Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Once the CCT has adjourned its sitting indefinitely the case is closed.Buhari has overpowered former Chief Justice and Judiciary at large.