You’ve No Powers To Try Me At CCT – Onnoghen Tells Federal Government

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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Monday, tested the purview of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, to attempt him over his supposed inability to announce his advantages.

The CJN, who slowed down his arranged arraignment following his refusal to show up before the Justice Danladi Umar’s driven three-part board council, was anyway spoken to by a consortium of 89 attorneys that involved 46 Senior Advocates of Nigeria.

The lawful group, which was driven by a previous President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, and a previous Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, told the council that their appearance at the procedure was “in dissent.”

Olanipekun told the court that the CJN has just documented a movement dated January 14, to challenge the ward of the council to hear the charges FG leveled against him.

“My ruler, we are not simply difficult purview, we are notwithstanding testing the ward of this court to try and sniff that charge. We have served the Complainant/Respondent”, Olanipekun submitted.

In spite of the fact that the said movement was not moved, by and by, an individual from the group who addressed Vanguard on state of namelessness, said the CJN would profit by FG’s inability to channel the appeal to against him, just as the result of the examination that was purportedly directed on his benefits announcement frames by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, to the National Judicial Council, NJC, before it hurried the case to the CCT.

The CJN is battling that FG’s inability to submit to existing legal point of reference as exemplified in an ongoing Appeal Court’s choice in Nganjiwa v Federal Republic of Nigeria (2017) LPELR-43391(CA), such that any unfortunate behavior connected to the workplace and elements of a legal officer, should initially be accounted for to and dealt with by the NJC, as per the arrangements of the laws.

He contended that simply after the NJC has articulated against such legal officer could arraigning offices of the Federal Government continue to start a criminal continuing.

Subsequently, putting dependence on an ongoing choice of the CCT on a comparative charge FG held up against another Justice of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta, the CJN’s legitimate group, kept up that FG’s choice to sideline the NJC, stripped the council of its purview to engage the moment case.