President Muhammadu Buhari’s
Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has raised an alarm over
plot to remove the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Tanko Muhammad.
Onochie claimed that the
opposition was plotting to remove Muhammad due to the 2023 general elections.
Buhari had appointed Muhammad
acting CJN, following the suspension of Walter Onnoghen over alleged failure to
declare all his assets as prescribed by law.
Following the conviction of
Onnoghen by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, last week, Buhari had extended
Muhammad’s tenure as acting CJN by three months.
However, Onochie in a tweet
wrote: “They are battling to remove him from office.
“They know he will still be Chief
Justice of Nigeria during the next General elections because he will be in
office until Dec 31st, 2023 when he turns 70
“His name is Justice Tanko
Muhammad, the Acting Chief Justice of our great nation.”
This is coming at a time a Human
rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo filed an action at the Federal High Court,
Abuja, asking the court to stop Buhari from appointing Muhammad as the
substantial CJN.
Defendants in the suit, which he
filed in the name of Malcom Omirhobo Foundation, are the National Judicial
Council (NJC), Federal Judicial Service Commission, the acting CJN, Federal
Government of Nigeria, Nigerian president, attorney general of the federation
and the National Assembly.
In the suit marked
FHC/ABJ/CS/420/2019 before Justice Inyang Ekwo, the applicant also want the
court to declare that the suspension and/or removal of the CJN from office is a
shared responsibility of the 1st defendant, 5th defendant and 7th defendant and
that the 5th defendant (Buhari) do not have the power under the law to
unilaterally suspend and/or remove the CJN from office.
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