The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chided the Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, over alleged ties with the
aggrieved governors elected on the platform of PDP.
The CJN, who was in Rivers State recently for the
inauguration of a project executed by Governor Nyesom Wike, was reported to
have said that he was happy that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State was among
the five aggrieved governors known as G-5.
But the Director of Press and Information in the Supreme
Court, Dr Festus Akande, in a statement he issued on Saturday, said the comment
by Justice Olukayode was twisted and misrepresented by the media.
However, PDP in a statement issued on Tuesday by the
spokesperson of its Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Senator Dino
Melaye, alleged that the CJN was seeking to recruit members into the G-5.
Dino, who declared the CJN a suspect for familiarizing
himself with the aggrieved governors, also demanded his immediate resignation.
The statement reads in part, “The Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Hon Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who has just demonstrated his familiarity with
the workings of G5 Governors has by seeking to recruit members into that group
turned himself into a suspect, who only can not be trusted with fair
dispensation of justice in Nigeria, but a Chief Judicial Officer who has become
tainted and unfit to superintend over the administration of Justice in Nigeria.
“With the scandalous conduct of the Chief Justice of
Nigeria, it has become expedient and a matter of honour that he resigns from
the exalted office that he has demonstrably abused.”
The statement opined that the CJN’s involvement in partisan politics was against the provisions of Section 5 of the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers as contained in the Nigerian constitution.
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