“Resign Now”, Femi Falana Tells Suspended Chief Justice

Falana Calls For Justice Onnoghen’s Resignation
Channels Television
Updated January 27, 2019

Femi
Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has asked Justice Walter Onnoghen
to quit the bench, following the allegations levelled against him at
the code of conduct tribunal.

The human rights activist made this call on Sunday while featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

He
said, “The government should as a matter of urgency, lift the
suspension on the Chief Justice since the Chief Justice as so much to on
his own admitted that he did not declare his assets, he should do the
needful by calling it quits”.

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Falana
said after the suspension has been lifted, the Chief Justice should
quit the bench because he has already admitted that he failed in his
duty to declare his asset as required by the constitution.

The
Senior Advocate further argued that the Executive and the Judiciary arms
of government have failed Nigerians with regards to the case of Justice
Walter Onnoghen.

He said it was wrong for President Muhammadu
Buhari to have suspended Justice Onnoghen based on an ex parte order of
the code of conduct tribunal.

He said by so doing the President did not follow due process, stressing that the government must learn to obey the rule of law.

“You can’t fight corruption without following due process,” Falana said.

Source:- Channelstv