Activist lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over the non-confirmation of the acting Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

Also enjoined in the suit is the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, the National Judicial Council, NJC, and the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN.

The Lagos-based lawyer is praying the court to prevail on the President and his vice to forward the name of Onnoghen to the senate for confirmation.

The activist lawyer sought an “order of injunction to restrain the President and the Vice-President from appointing another candidate for presentation to the Senate, for the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, apart from Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who is the most senior justice of the Supreme Court and who has already been selected and recommended by the National Judicial Council.”

He also prayed the court to stop the Senate from “accepting, entertaining, deliberating upon or considering the nomination of any other candidate that may be forwarded to it by the President and the Vice-President, apart from Hon Justice Walter Onnoghen, who has already been selected by the National Judicial Council.”

He also seeks an order of injunction to restrain the NJC from entertaining any request from the President and the Vice-President, to consider another candidate for the office of the CJN order than Onnoghen, who was already selected.

Adegboruwa prayed the “court to forthwith direct Hon Justice Walter Onnoghen to assume and take over and be performing and discharging the duties and functions of the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, until such a time that the President would agree to forward his name to the Senate for confirmation or until he retires at the mandatory age of 70 years.”

In a 42 paragraph affidavit supporting his suit, Adegboruwa traced the history of the previous appointments of other CJN, stressing that it has never been the style of the executive to leave a vacuum in the highest judicial office of the land.

According to Adegboruwa, “Upon the coming into force of the 1999 Constitution, the President has no discretion in the choice of candidate to occupy the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, other than the person selected and recommended to him by the National Judicial Council.

Accusing the President of “negative bais against the judiciary which he had openly declared as his headache,” the lawyer stressed that Buhari was “deliberately withholding the appointment of Justice Onnoghen in order to destabilize the judiciary and to force him into compulsory retirement, being a Christian from Southern part of Nigeria.”

He alleged that the President had a “hidden agenda to perpetuate civilian dictatorship and to implement his ethnic and religious agenda,” by frustrating the first CJN from the Southern part of the country in the past 30 years.

Adegboruwa cited instances of the refusal of the President to obey the order of the ECOWAS Court to release former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki(rtd) the order of the Federal High Court to release Shite leader, Ibrahim El Zakzaky, as precedents of the preference of the President for a system of lawlessness, contempt and total disregard for the judiciary and the rule of law.

The court is yet to fix a date for the hearing of the suit.

Cc: lalasticlala, Mynd44

http://dailypost.ng/2017/01/31/lagos-lawyer-adegboruwa-sued-buhari-osinbajo-others/

We should arise as a nation against bigotry in Government!

FTC 9!

This man confirmation should have been done long time. This will promote unity in Nigeria and a good sense of belonging to all parts of the country

Buhari is Incompetent


In Atiku I trust

Atiku2019:
Buhari is Incompetent



In Atiku I trust

Whao so your Atiku is competent?

He's competent in stealing our commonwealth

simple series of debates will save Nigeria from all these old hargard retarded leaders

learn from USA

You allow him to be the acting CJN, so why can't you forward his name for clearance to stop acting and be the damn CJN. Why do they want to send someone else's name to senate for confirmation?