Politics
Nigeria risks crisis over plot to sack Chief Justice Onnoghen- Atiku alleges
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the plan by the Federal government to sack and prosecute the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, saying the act could plunge the country into crisis.
Atiku said the allegations against Onnoghen were flimsy while alleging that the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) had become a tool in the hands of the APC led federal government.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former Vice-President said the APC was only afraid of impending defeat in the forthcoming general elections and had resorted to taking desperate moves to avoid loss at the poll.
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He said, “We have just been made aware of the plot by President Muhammadu Buhari the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sack Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen using flimsy assets declaration issues as a pretext.
“We are aware that there are plans to arraign Justice Onnoghen before the Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar led-Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday, January 14, 2019.
“The charge against Onnoghen, we understand has already been filed and served on him last Friday at his official residence in Abuja preparatory to his appearance at the Tribunal.
”But we warn that despite the clandestine meetings in the highest echelon of the APC and also involving some top officials of the federal government which include the Code of Conduct Tribunal, neither Buhari nor the APC can re-write the Nigerian Constitution just because of its impending defeat at the February 16, presidential election.
“Heavens did not fall when PDP lost to the APC in 2015. And heavens will not fall now that the APC is sure to lose to the PDP, seeing that the APC’s plan to rig in the forthcoming elections will not pull through.”
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