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.
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The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to activate Section 52 of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act (as amended) for the investigation of the alleged $5 million bribery allegations against Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje.
The Chairman of the Technical Committee, Senator David Umaru, asked the CJN the reasons why he advised President Buhari not to sign the Judiciary Amendment Bill 2017, Number 22, which seeks to strengthen the judiciary for speedy dispensation of Justice.
In a statement signed by Yusuph Olaniyonu, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Saraki described Kutigi as a honourable jurist, who spent his life in the service of his country and humanity.
The judge had been accused of corrupt practices.
The party said the admission by the Buhari Presidency, on Sunday, that “its obnoxious Executive Order 6, as well as the travel ban and trailing of citizens are devised to directly interfere in judicial processes and stifle accused persons of resources, under the guise of speedy trial, has left no one in doubt that the nation is fast sliding into fascism”.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday prayed for Nigeria and calling for God’s blessings for the nation and its citizens.
President Buhari said this on Sunday while declaring open the 58th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja.
In a statement, the Presidency said Onnoghen was conferred with the 2018 Michael Hill Prize by the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law in Montreal, Canada
Making the plea is pro-democracy and non-governmental body, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, which specifically asked Onnoghen to call out all the court systems in Nigeria to a week-long warning strike to protest against serial disobedience of President Muhammadu Buhari to a litany of binding Federal High Court bail orders with specific reference to the prolonged detention of erstwhile National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Islamic movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaki.
This was contained in the report card of the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trials Monitoring Committee, inaugurated in November 2017 by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, to tour the six geopolitical zones of the country to determine the causes of slow pace of corruption and financial crimes cases in the country’s courts.
Administering the oath of office on kafarati, the CJN charged him to adhere strictly to his oath of office and the 1999 Constitution.
This was just as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, and Fayose have called for virile and strong judicial arm for Nigeria’s democracy to grow and deliver on its mandate.
Goji was recommended for compulsory retirement for refusing to proceed on transfer to the Mubi Judicial Division of the State High Court since July 2017.
He recalled that during the 2017 All Nigeria Judges Conference, a judge from one of the Jurisdictions advocated for the formation of an Association of Nigerian Judges to speak for Judiciary when under attack.
The also party urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to protect the institution of the judiciary and the courts from the established direct interferences of the APC and officials of the Federal Government in the conduct of cases involving its members and particularly the former National Publicity Secretary.
Justice Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, gave the deadline during the formal presentation of the newly retrofitted Court and Legal Email, at the Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja.
Awassam Bassey, Special Adviser on Media to the CJN, disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
He gave the commitment in his goodwill message to the National Economic Council sponsored Security Summit in Abuja.