FORMER Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Sunday, decried what he termed the crude attempt to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, describing it as immoral, illegitimate, invalid, void ab initio.
George said this in a release made available to newsmen in Lagos, and further describing the planned move as an assault upon the rule of law as well as an outright savaging of the fundamental pivot upon which the country’s democracy delicately rests.
According to him, the move, which he saw as “untidy backdoor intrusion on the independence of the Judiciary” will not only puts the country’s democracy at risk but will equally create a creeping anomaly that would result in the emergence of an overbearing executive arm of government.
“It is an assault upon the rule of law, an outright savaging of the fundamental pivot upon which this democracy delicately rests.
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“The untidy backdoor intrusion on the independence of the Judiciary not only puts this democracy at risk, but it also creates a creeping anomaly wherein the legislative and the judicial arms of the democratic tripod are being decimated by an overbearing Executive thereby reducing the nation to a dubious authoritarian rule,” George said.
The PDP chieftain warned that the executive must be very cautious, sensitive to the ethnic moderating balancing of this nation, as the impression out there was that a CJN from the minority section of Nigeria was being hedged out to pave way for a preferred substitute.
“The Executive must be very cautious, sensitive to the ethnic moderating balancing of this nation. For the impression out there is that a CJN from the minority section of our nation is being elbowed out to pave way for a preferred substitute.
“This is definitely not right. This definitely looms with unfairness and distasteful totality. Barely 33 days before the general elections and you are dragging the summative symbol of the Judiciary to a Tribunal with a hurried and apparently coordinated petition from one Dennis Aghanya who used to work closely with the highest authority in the land! Truly ‘something is rotten in Denmark,” George said.
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Nigeria’s Chief Justice Onnoghen to face Corruption, Assets Declaration Charges
The Chief Justice Annul salary is N750,000
Yet he’s depositing $50.000 Dollars cash a month into his Nigeria Foreign Currency account that’s about N15million he’s supposed to be the chief law officer of our Republic.. PDP are saying the investigation is political for government to wanting to know where he’s getting those money from
and we have some fools here that can’t afford $1 a day coming on face book with their last recharge card to defend this man
May we never see PDP in our government again
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This exconvit is an embarrassment to omoluabi and the pdp…. He has zero shame……… Shebi you were able to bribe your way reason why you got a reduced sentence…. How you all defend criminals is what baffled me
Ex dey talk
You’re right sir, what a blow on another ‘Dubai plan of RIGGING’
APC why do you depend on rigging and you said you are the best. You have done more than PDP did for 16yrs in 4yers and you are planning to rig .God pass them
Even ex-convicts are talking. Nigeria we hail thee
Xconvict that can not contest for any position of trust…not even a village head…what do u know about morality & legitimacy ?
You never see wrong doing.. Nigeria law for poor masses
if all these criminals are supporting this man belligerently like this, honestly I am beginning to suspect something
Nigeria is finished with these people. Corrupt and sick people everywhere looting the nation and killing people’s destiny. It’s ludicrous.
why do PDP always defend people accused of corruption, in 2016 , efforts to flush out corrupt judges was seriously crtisize by the PDP, I believe as human being the CJN can forgot to declare seven hundred thousand dollars in his account , but is it possible to forgets 55 houses?
Is this man a PDP member?
You should talk with sense and avoid bigotry.He said where he got those money from and they should investigate that
Ex convict is talking
A PDP again .
You are right. It will be a slight on the South.