Atiku To Buhari: Don’t Throw Nigeria Into Crisis Over Planned Removal Of CJN

Atiku To Buhari: Don’t Throw Nigeria Into Crisis Over Planned Removal Of CJN

Former Vice President cum PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
has reacted to the planned arraignement of the Chief Justice of
Nigeria, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, by the Federal government
on Monday January 14th. The Federal government plans to arraigne
Onnoghen over his alleged refusal to declare his assets since his
assumption of office.

Reacting to this development, Atiku in a statement issued by his
Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu today January
12th, Atiku said the plot to sack Justice Onnoghen was a preemptive by
the party in the face of imminent defeat it will suffer come February
16th.

“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.”  the statement read