 |
| President Muhammadu Buhari |
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) called on Buhari to immediately reverse the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) suspension and reinstate Justice Walter Onnoghen.
PANDEF, in a statement on Saturday, said Justice Walter Onnoghen’s suspension based on the orders of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) was akin to suspending the Nigerian constitution and enthroning dictatorship and anarchy in the country.
The statement, signed by the PANDEF's National Secretary, Dr. Alfred Mulade, indicated that the people of South-South would not tolerate the continued persecution of their people.
The statement read in part, “We shall employ all legitimate means to demonstrate our insistence on the reversal of the illegal removal of CJN Justice Walter Onnoghen. This country belongs to all of us, and we are critical stakeholders in the Nigerian State.
“The President acted on a fraudulent order, emanating from an inferior court without jurisdiction to advise the President to remove the CJN. He acted on the order procured by a tribunal, which blatantly and flagrantly chose to disobey a subsisting court order.
“PANDEF therefore declares as follows: The NBA should call for total boycott of courts until this illegality is reversed.
“Justice Tanko Mohammed should be sanctioned by the NJC for his willful participation in this ‘coup’ against the Office of the CJN and the Nigerian Constitution.”
PANDEF, in a statement on Saturday, said Justice Walter Onnoghen’s suspension based on the orders of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) was akin to suspending the Nigerian constitution and enthroning dictatorship and anarchy in the country.
The statement, signed by the PANDEF's National Secretary, Dr. Alfred Mulade, indicated that the people of South-South would not tolerate the continued persecution of their people.
The statement read in part, “We shall employ all legitimate means to demonstrate our insistence on the reversal of the illegal removal of CJN Justice Walter Onnoghen. This country belongs to all of us, and we are critical stakeholders in the Nigerian State.
“The President acted on a fraudulent order, emanating from an inferior court without jurisdiction to advise the President to remove the CJN. He acted on the order procured by a tribunal, which blatantly and flagrantly chose to disobey a subsisting court order.
“PANDEF therefore declares as follows: The NBA should call for total boycott of courts until this illegality is reversed.
“Justice Tanko Mohammed should be sanctioned by the NJC for his willful participation in this ‘coup’ against the Office of the CJN and the Nigerian Constitution.”
In this article: