The Code of Conduct Tribunal has adjourned the trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, till January 22, 2019.
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Most court rooms did not proceed with cases as earlier scheduled except the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for Osun State.
The Governors of the South South geopolitical zone of the country have told the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to ignore his summon by the Code of Conduct Tribunal for his trial over allegations of money laundering and failure to declare his assets.
Key analysts have said that the plan to arraign the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, over alleged failure of assets declaration will change citizens perceptions and orientation about laws.
The Atiku-Agbaje Media Engagement Network has described the move to hurl the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal as a vile attempt to cow the Judiciary ahead of the 2019 elections.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has said he is innocent of the charges over which he is to be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal has Scheduled January 14 for the arraignment of Justice Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, on allegations of false and non-declaration of assets.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said the move to sack and probe the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, a few weeks to the polls was suspicious.
The charges against Onnoghen were sighted by PRNigeria
The Supreme Court quashed all the charges against Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, saying he had no case to answer
Three years of back-and-forth allegations in court between a sitting President of the Senate and the state was not a pleasant sight to behold. Apart from the toll on the collective image of the country, it literally sets out to undo what ordinarily could have been the gains of the current democratic experience, especially given the strongly rooted assumption that the charges were trumped up to teach him some lessons for being a deviant
The President made his position known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Malam Garba Shehu, on Saturday
The party said the Supreme Court, by the judgment, has further reinforced the confidence of Nigerian citizens in the courage of the institution of the judiciary as the temple of justice and the last hope of the common man, particularly under an oppressive regime.
Saraki said this in a statement he personally signed in Abuja on Friday after Supreme Court’s judgment in the asset declaration charges, which went in his favour.
Dogara in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, said he received the news of the apex court’s verdict with joy.
The judgment was delivered in the early hours of Friday
The trial of a Chief Superintendent of Customs, Dr. Ibrahim Abdul, for alleged refusal to declare his assets as required…
The Head of Press and Public Relations of the tribunal, Malam Ibraheem Alhassan, who made the clarification while speaking to PRNigeria in Abuja, said the Chairman, who was in the office on Thursday, has even fixed June 20 and 21, 2018 for trial of Public Officers from Bauchi and Kwara States, who violated various provisions of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.
Danjuma Umar, Chairman of the tribunal, who presided over the case held that the petition brought against Nguta was incompetent.
Mallam Ibrahim Alhassan, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the CCT disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Bauchi.