Femi Aborisade's Blog

https://socialistworkersleague.org/2019/01/28/removal-of-chief-justice-onnoghen/ Web link to original article The suspension of the Chief Justice, Walter Nkanu Samuel Onnoghen is undemocratic, and dictatorial, being unlawful and unconstitutional. On Friday, 25 th January 2019, President Buhari announced the unilateral suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria on the order of the  Code of Conduct Tribunal  (CCT) purportedly issued on 23 rd  January 2019. Indeed, the so-called ex-parte order was procured in suspicious circumstances in that on 22 nd  January, the CCT had publicly refused an oral application for the same interim order and adjourned proceedings till 28 th  January to hear the application of Counsel to the Chief Justice challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT.

The planned arraignment of CJN Walter Onnoghen on Monday, 14th January 2019 before the Code of  Conduct Tribunal is motivated, not by the altruistic motive to fight corruption in the judiciary but by a unitarist, tyrannical and totalitarian motive to intimidate, overawe and subdue the judiciary to do the bidding of the APC-controlled Federal Government in view of the impending 2019 elections and the electoral litigations that may follow. This political motive is expressly disclosed in the petition written by Anti- Corruption and Research Based Data Initiative (ARDI) which is headed by a former media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari and founding member of The Buhari Organization (TBO), Dennis Aghanya.