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The Kwara state chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to, as a matter of urgency, remove the adviser who offered him the idea leading to the unlawful and unconstitutional suspension of the former President of the Court of Appeal, Isa Ayo Salami; the purported appointment and swearing-in of an acting President of the Court of Appeal and the attempt by the President to procure the premature retirement to the jurist.


This was contained in a text of address delivered yesterday in Ilorin by the Chairman of the branch, Salman Jawondo at a press conference tagged ‘When salt rottens' which was organised to officially declare the boycott of court activities to the state government house.

Mr Jawondo said; "if it is true, as widely reported in the newspapers, that the president acted on the advice, supposedly, of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, to approve the unlawful suspension of Honourable Justice Isa Ayo Salami, then we make bold to say that His Excellency of FRN was misadvised and to that extent, it is our humble view the presence of such an adviser in the President's cabinet needs to be reviewed or reconsidered."

"Today, Nigeria Judiciary and administration of Justice sector are being undermined by those who swore to uphold the constitution of the land and whose duties include the protection and preservation of the judiciary and the rule of law and the entire judicial system", Mr Jawondo said.

He added that "The acts and conduct of both NJC and the Mr President are antithetical to the rule of law,
contemptuous of court process and the judiciary and demostrated lack of respect for democratic principle and attempts to harass and intimidate the trial court and or any court that will have anything to do with the then pending case from doing justice in the matter. This is worrisome and disturbing particularly when such subversion of the rule and due process and enthronement of the rule of the jungle emanated from country's apex judicial administrative body and the president of the country."

In his reaction, Niyi Oshe (SAN) said; "In my 44 years of service in this profession, I have never experienced such an abnormal situation before therefore the CJN and the President must be held responsible in the ugly matter".
Another senior lawyer, Peter Olorunisola, said "The legal profession has been captured, Nigeria has been captured therefore, Nigeria is on trial, a country where corruption has been legalised."
The conference however recommended the separation of the office of the Attorney-General from that of the Minister for Justice so as to avoid future occurrence of such ugly matter.
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