lee007:

Please Please Please if you dont know how a profession operates at least you can ask questions, people who do not understand the peculiar nature and structure of the Judiciary should just limit thier activity to reading here.

The President of the Court of Appeal Stands on the same level if not more powerful than a supreme Court Judge. In the History of the Country, how many presidents of the Court of Appel has been promoted to the Supreme Court? the next Level for him is retirement not A malicious promotion ochestrated by the Evil called PDP.

The role of this eminent Nigerian in clipping the rigging of the PDP in many states of the country has now become an obvious threat to the PDP and the only way to deal with the issue is to 'Promote" him off danger Zone.

He has taken the path of wisdom and truth, and who told you an employee cannot reject Promotion

Please Niralanders lest display less of ignorance please!

bisiaet:

Please is this man alright at all? But was this not the same man that was promoted to the presidency of appeal court and was smiling then? So what is it in that office that he does not want to be move or promoted? When elderly man of his status talk like this I always wonder what is the matter with this people? When he became president of appeal court he never say it was politically motivated so why now? Does it mean now in Nigeria any move, anything, everything is politically motivated? this is so weird and annoying.

If his boss want him to move on and he is not happy about it the best for him is to dio is to call it quit simple as that. He was promoted and appointed to where he is now so he has no option than to accept it or quit for other who want to do the job. Does he want to be in appeal court forever?

4llerbuntu:

hmmn.

please how is a promotion evidence of a witch hunt?

since when did it become customary and as of right to reject a promotion in a government appointment?

why is there the need to sit tight at the court of appeal?

having severally announced as some here have done that the judge in question is qualified to be a supreme court judge, and that he is presently the most senior of all court of appeal judges, why is his appointment out of place?




you people seem to forget in the midst of the rush of blood to the head wanting to castigate and accuse the presidency of all manners of what nots, that this could actually be the reverse.

appeals from guber and assembly polls terminate at the court of appeal, thats a lot of influence to have and that is why the man is bent on sitting tight

is he also saying that the other judges of the court of appeal who may take over are incompetent or compromised? those are weighty allegations.


what he has just achieved is bastardisation of the integrity and name of the court of appeal.


Note that this is the same man parties in appeals at the guber stage in the last polls are accusing of heavy issues. i read some of them in the guardian this week and am afraid, sour grapes or not they did have a point.

there has been an uproar even amongst the bar about inconsistencies in the decisions of the election tribunals.



stop to consider this issues from both sides and quit giving in to the knee jerk reaction of criticizing the govt simply because anyone says something negative.

the man ought to face disciplinary panel for bringing the bench into disrepute. this offends all known decorum and only serves as ammunition for people to stand up tomorrow and question the integrity of the courts without basis.

you forget that a lawyer even when he is totally wrong, will argue strenuously and bend facts to suit his purpose

Nicklee:

Now I know Nigeria is a fool's paradise. He who wears the shoes knows exactly where it is pinching and a bunch of us are here telling Hon. Salami where it might be pinching him. For God's sake, why is everyone reading this thing out of context? Katsina-Alu had asked him to compromise a judgement in the past which he refused. That is very dangerous and no body on this forum is talking about it - instead we have allowed our blind and notoriously foolish political affiliations to distort our minds and make us focus on the most irrelevant part of this issue.

Salami thinks he is being pushed out to pave way for electoral fraud. This is big and I think every Nigeria should be calling for an in-depth probe (like Prof. Sagay and Co, suggested). Atleast, that is the part of this issue that affects us and can send us further back in time. But alas, we are busy debating if he has the right to reject a promotion? I think Hon. Salami is an honorable man and would rather resign than bend to this morally debasing move.
Nigerians, let's wear our thinking cap always. We can use this forum (like Egypt and Tunisia did) to create a big movement and make a big change in nigeria. The way we quickly loose sight of the heart of an issue baffles me!!! Focus people, read beyond your sentiments!!! Haba,

maasoap:

I knew he would go because he has become a politician rather than impartial judge. And he has gone for good, he either accepts promotion or resigns. When a justice DISENFRANCHISED one-third of the voters in guber election, something is fishy definitely. He has lost confidence in majority of the Appeal court justices and he believes that only few are loyal to HIM and based on that, he uses these few justices to determine cases. Any appeal court justice that held different view on Election Tribunal cases would never be selected to determine cases but as long as you and me belong to opposition parties, he would remain the best justice even if he is partial. Ayo Salami, your employer has ordered you to move to the higher court, just move coz we're tired of using caucus in determining cases in the court of appeal.

The 24-member National Judicial council (NJC) of Nigeria has just risen from its emergency meeting today with a decision siding with the President of The court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, over the controversy surrounding the prooposed "promotion" to the Supreme Court as plotted by the Chief Justice Of Nigeria and elements in Goodluck Jonathan's government.

The body which has as members, NBA president JB Daudu, former NBA president, Rotimi Akeredolu, Olisa Agbakoba, retired Supreme Court justice, Pius Aderemi (JSC), Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, Chief Judge of Fed. High court, Dan Abutu, President of the Court of Appeal Ayo Salami, Justice Dahiru Mustpaha, Retired Justice Akpiroroh, former PCAJ, Justice Umaru Abdullahi, Grand Khadi Abubakar Shettima, Justice Kate Adiri, Justice Innocent Uwazurike (Chief judge Enugu state) and former NBA Chief OCJ Okocha, SAN. decided that it was improper o force anyone into any type of promotion if they do not desire it.

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/breaking-news-njc-quashes-justice-salamis-proposed-promotion-supreme-court

anataala:

it is because he has not cancell sokoto election, because GEJ want him out cos the governour is not supporting him to contest for election, but bhe refuse the request CJN, and he knew that he is not suppose to be promoted to supreme court he still have 2 more years b4 he can be move to supreme court

Interesting, from this post I now conclude that most people that posts comment here are educated illiterate. In law they say justice must not only be done, it must be seen to have been done. when a promotion become an instrument for humuliation, does that promotion be said to be in good faith? As Nigerians don't we anymore a single sense of justice. A man is here saying that his promotion is humiliation yet we re not ready to see thru the lines. Even when enlightened opinions of competent members of the bar is posted above , most illiterate minds on this forum could still not see sense in the opinions of Sagay and others. It is a pity for Nigeria, the young people of today are not intellectually inclined.