The Poet Lied.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal is not a court or a tribunal of unlimited or final jurisdiction. The CCT cannot direct the President to take action on a pending suit before it involving the head of another equal branch of government. This is a bald-faced coercion - a travesty. The President's action has no support in law or reason. Especially when the injunctive relief issued by the Appeal Court on the same issue has not been vacated. Even if there is no subsisting injunction; even if the injunction has been vacated, the CCT has no case against the CJN warranting the action of the President via an ex parte order as the President alluded to in resolution #1 of the Presidential address. Such an action is absurdly a travesty. Due process is not alien to the Nigerian legal system.
By the way, the #17 resolution is the most ludicrous and self-serving Presidential mumble jumble ever written, in light of the continued incarceration of Col Dasuki. Mr. President, I am not questioning your audacity or your understanding of the principle of Rule of Law, but suffices it to say that your Legal Advisors and the authors of that paper that you signed, purportedly suspending the Chief Justice, do not deserve a day longer in the Nigerian Bar or in our Judicial system. Simply put, there is no law in our jurisprudence supporting your action. The main reason the authors didn't cite any.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal is not a court or a tribunal of unlimited or final jurisdiction. The CCT cannot direct the President to take action on a pending suit before it involving the head of another equal branch of government. This is a bald-faced coercion - a travesty. The President's action has no support in law or reason. Especially when the injunctive relief issued by the Appeal Court on the same issue has not been vacated. Even if there is no subsisting injunction; even if the injunction has been vacated, the CCT has no case against the CJN warranting the action of the President via an ex parte order as the President alluded to in resolution #1 of the Presidential address. Such an action is absurdly a travesty. Due process is not alien to the Nigerian legal system.
By the way, the #17 resolution is the most ludicrous and self-serving Presidential mumble jumble ever written, in light of the continued incarceration of Col Dasuki. Mr. President, I am not questioning your audacity or your understanding of the principle of Rule of Law, but suffices it to say that your Legal Advisors and the authors of that paper that you signed, purportedly suspending the Chief Justice, do not deserve a day longer in the Nigerian Bar or in our Judicial system. Simply put, there is no law in our jurisprudence supporting your action. The main reason the authors didn't cite any.
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