Okocha expresses fear over who swears in Wike

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) OCJ Okocha has expressed concern over the absence of a Chief Judge who will swear in Rivers State Governor-elect Nyesom Wike.

Okocha said the constitution empowers only the Chief Judge of a State, the President of a Customary Court of Appeal and a Grand Khadi of a Sharia Court of Appeal to administer oath of office on a governor-elect before he can legally perform the functions of a governor.

Okocha, who spoke yesterday on a radio interview monitored in Port Harcourt, said Rivers State may be in for a constitutional crisis on May 29 if Governor Rotimi Amaechi does not appoint an acting Chief Judge.

He said: “Any of these three can administer the oath. For us, it is usual that it is the Chief Judge of Rivers State. We don’t have a Chief Judge, neither do we have an acting Chief Judge. We also do not have a President of the Customary Court of Appeal.

“If these things remain as they are now, there may be constitutional crisis. Right now that office is vacant so is the office of President of the Customary Court of Appeal of Rivers State and we are facing this looming, as you say, constitutional crisis.

“Well, I hope and believe that reason will prevail and the governor will see it fit to do what is needful to ensure he appoints the appropriate person as stipulated in the constitution as acting Chief Judge so that at least, we can have our new governor sworn-in by the acting Chief Judge so appointed,” Okocha said.

Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt last year ruled that the National Judicial Council (NJC) cannot force the governor to accept whoever it recommends to him for appointment as Chief Judge.

Justice Akanbi also said that the decision of the NJC to prefer Justice Daisy Okocha and disqualify Justice Peter Agumagu was wrong, null and void.

Dissatisfied with this decision, Justice Okocha approached the Court of Appeal to set aside the decision and till now, the matter is still undecided.


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Observing.....

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That moment when you don kit up for party only to get there to hear say the party was cancelled!

I was even thinking it was jay jay okocha.......

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dont know what you guys are talking about, someone please explain.

Actually thought it was JJ okocha...lol Well Mama pieces and Wike forgot this aspect of the game.. now Amaechi got the last card finally.. lets watch if GEJ would be manipulated again to appoint them one cuz PDP had been known for turning the constitution upside down

Whether there is a Chief Judge or not, the tenure of Amaechi ends on May 29.

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CharlesPhc:
Very simple, the constitution says ‘where there is no substantive Chief Judge, the most Senior Judge of the High Court AUTOMATICALLY assumes office as the Acting Chief Judge. At this point its not in the power of the governor to ‘appoint’. It’s within the jurisdiction of the NJC to say who is the Most Senior Judge of the State High Court of Rivers State period…!!! The power of appointment of the substantive CJ lies only in the hand of the Governor based on recommendation from the NJC. At this stage what we should be talking about is who is the most senior judge of the Rivers State High Court. That Judge can perform the duties as the Acting CJ without even the ceremonial oath of office by the governor. The issue in my mind is that since the matter is in court and the court has adjoined to June,

Simple and succinct.

In other words, 2 open vacancies available. Should we apply?

Oh, tot u said JJ Okocha.

Let democracy work!

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I thought is Jay Jay Okocha

Rivers State: theatre of the absurd

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Hmmmmmmm...drama for dat state no dey end @ all....

Mama Piss should swear in Wike.

Simple!

thief pdp loose he congratulate saint apc, but saint apc loose,they castigate thief pdp...hmmm

Amechi should appoint a chief judge or GEJ will handover on 28th of May. APC will not see the bad intent in this one cos it's a PDP victory.

CharlesPhc:
Very simple, the constitution says ‘where there is no substantive Chief Judge, the most Senior Judge of the High Court AUTOMATICALLY assumes office as the Acting Chief Judge. At this point its not in the power of the governor to ‘appoint’. It’s within the jurisdiction of the NJC to say who is the Most Senior Judge of the State High Court of Rivers State period…!!! The power of appointment of the substantive CJ lies only in the hand of the Governor based on recommendation from the NJC. At this stage what we should be talking about is who is the most senior judge of the Rivers State High Court. That Judge can perform the duties as the Acting CJ without even the ceremonial oath of office by the governor. The issue in my mind is that since the matter is in court and the court has adjoined to June, NJC's acting on the matter by appointing Daisy Okocha as the Acting Chief Judge in spite of the subsisting Court case may amount to contempt of Court

Did you read the whole write up?

“Well, I hope and believe that reason will prevail and the governor will see it fit to do what is needful to ensure he appoints the appropriate person as stipulated in the constitution as acting Chief Judge so that at least, we can have our new governor sworn-in by the acting Chief Judge so appointed,” Okocha said.

Very simple, the constitution says ‘where there is no substantive Chief Judge, the most Senior Judge of the High Court AUTOMATICALLY assumes office as the Acting Chief Judge. At this point its not in the power of the governor to ‘appoint’.

So why hasn't the most Senior Judge of the High Court automatically assumed office?

leshluap:
I was even thinking it was jay jay okocha.......

I swear. Even I myself

That's none of my biz

leshluap:
I was even thinking it was jay jay okocha.......

Y'all will see who will swear him in it might be me cos nothing is impossible

Hahahahahaha! Won't you just like politics? LOL