A senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Ogu James Onoja, has cautioned that the judiciary will be the victim, if the current political system fails, and tasked judges on professionalism to ensure that only properly elected leaders are sworn in.

He gave the caution at his country home at Ofante Ogugu, in Olamoboro local council area of Kogi State during Unyi-Ogugu football tournament.

Onoja expressed concern that the failure of political system has direct impact on everyone, whether in the private practice or judiciary.

“My advise to judges is for them to bear in mind that the success of the nation’s democracy depends on the judiciary. They have a bigger role to play and if they do any thing that brings disrepute to the judiciary, we are the ones who will bear the consequences.

“At the end of the day, politicians, and the parliamentarians will do their own and rush to the judiciary, which is expected to be the hope of the common man,” he said.

Onoja said what ever happens in Kogi State also affects him, adding that when salaries are not paid, he sends money to his people who are civil servants.

He cautioned that it is not possible for anything that happens anywhere in the country not to affect others.

“It is a fact that the failure of the system is the failure of all of us,” he said.

He stressed that at a time like this, there is political tension, with the fear that the country could collapse, with every body’s heart is in his mouth because any thing can happen.

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