Buhari had on Friday suspended Onnoghen and immediately appointed Tanko Mohammed as acting CJN.
reason, the President said he suspended Onnoghen, following from the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, asking him to wield stick.
In a statement forwarded on Friday, Agbakoba made that Buhari’s action “is the most brazen assault on history” and criticized Mohammed for accepting to in.
“President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, is the most brazen assault on Nigeria`s constitutional history.
“The President has obviously to the advice of the Hon. Attorney General of the the Attorney General of the Federation has misadvised him or both.
“President Buhari claims that the suspension of the Chief Justice Onnoghen the determination of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. This not true.
The CCT itself adjourned proceedings in respect of Justice Onnoghen`s matter in order to determine if it had try Justice Onnoghen. The President`s decision contravenes the the CCT.
“There are at least six (6) pending cases in of Nigeria and one in the Court of Appeal. All these cases Justice Onnoghen should remain in office pending when all him are resolved. These Rulings bind the President of Nigeria. In any Section 292 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria sets out for removing or suspending the Chief Justice of Nigeria. to suspend or remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria vests in the Senate side of the National Assembly.
“For all these reasons suspension of Chief Justice Onnoghen is the gravest insult to Nigerian constitution in history.
It is difficult to understand how President Buhari will expect my vote of confidence in the February he wantonly denigrates and desecrates our Constitution.
“I all Nigerians to take the strongest possible view of the . I am shocked that Justice Mohammed Tanko would have to be sworn in as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria.
“I call on the Chief Justice of Nigeria to refuse to be pushed out . The NBA must rise to resist this assault to our constitution.
must rise; Civil Society Organizations must rise. This is potentially the beginning of our descent into constitutional anarchy.”
