The Nigerian Bar Association says it still recognises Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
It
also ordered its members across the country to boycott courts on
Tuesday and Wednesday in protest against President Muhammadu Buhari’s
suspension of Onnoghen last Friday.
Buhari had immediately sworn in Justice Tanko Mohammed as the acting CJN.
But
rising from its Monday emergency meeting of the National Executive
Committee comprising its branch chairmen and past presidents and the
executive committee of the association, the NBA said due process was not
followed by Buhari in suspending Onnoghen and swearing in Muhammad in
acting capacity.
Among other decisions reached at the meeting,
the NBA set up a committee led by former presidents of the association,
Chief Wole Olanipekun and Abubakar Mahmud, to liaise with lawyers
serving in the Buhari administration with a view to finding a solution
to the problem.
Source:- Punchng
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