AYODELE AJANI, ABUJA
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Chief Olabode George has said that attempt to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen is immoral, illegitimate, invalid, voided ab initio.
In a release issued Sunday night which he personally signed, Chief George said “it is an assault upon the rule of law, an outright savaging of the fundamental pivot upon which this democracy delicately rests.
“The untidy backdoor intrusion on the independence of the Judiciary not only puts this democracy at risk, it creates a creeping anomaly wherein the legislative and the judicial arms of the democratic tripod are being decimated by an overbearing Executive thereby reducing the nation to a dubious authoritarian rule.
“The Executive must be very cautious,sensitive to the ethnic moderating balancing of this nation. For the impression out there is that a CJN from the minority section of our nation is being elbowed out to pave way for a preferred substitute.
“This is definitely not right. This definitely looms with unfairness and distasteful totality.
” Barely 33 days before the general elections and you are dragging the summative symbol of the judiciary to a tribunal with hurried and apparently coordinated petition from one Dennis Aghanya who used to work closely with the highest authority in the land ! “, he stressed
