DIsmiss Acting CJN, Ibrahim Tanko, NBA Owerri Branch Urges NJC

* Calls For The Resignation Of The Vice President And
Attorney General Of The Federation
* Calls On Bar Disciplinary Committee To Discipline The
Duo

The Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri branch has asked the
National Judicial Council (NJC) to dismiss the purported Acting
CJN, Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko who according to them,
presented himself to be sworn in, in circumstances that they are in
pari material with the Abia State case.

The branch has asked the Council to follow the laid down
precedent, following some resolutions held in its monthly meeting
held on the 26th day of January, 2019.

The branch in its resolutions held that the NBA should take all
other steps including, but not limited to the total boycott of
Courts and if the need arises, the shutting down of the polity in
collaboration with Civil Society Groups.

The branch also called for the resignation of the Vice President
of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and the Attorney General of the
Federal, and further asked that disciplinary measures be taken
against the duo by the disciplinary committee of the Bar.

Below reads the resolutions:

1. That Owerri Bar rejects in its entirety the purported and
unconstitutional suspension of the Hon. CJN by the President of
FRN.

2. That Owerri Bar hereby empowers the chairman and executive
members of the Bar to attend the NEC meeting of the NBA on Monday
28/01/2019 and insist on the branch position that all legal process
must be followed to ensure that this Constitutional breach is
reversed.

3. That in addition to (2) above, Owerri Bar resolved that NBA
should take all other steps including but not limited to the total
boycott of Courts and if the need arises the shutting down of the
polity in collaboration with Civil Society Groups.

4. That the Attorney General of the Federation and the Vice
President be called upon to resign for being complicit in the
Constitutional breach.

5. That in addition to (4), the Attorney General of the
Federation and the Vice President should face disciplinary
committee of the Bar for disciplinary actions; and

6. That in line with the precedent laid in Abia State, that the
NJC should dismiss the purported Acting CJN who presented himself
to be sworn in, in circumstances that they are in pari material
with Abia State case.

The motion which fuelled the said Resolutions was moved and
seconded by Chief C.C. Onyeagbakor and L.U.N. Nwakaeti, Esq
respectively.

TheNigerialawyer (TNL) recalls that the Nigerian Bar Association
under the leadership of the NBA President, Paul Usoro, SAN has
called for an emergency meeting of the NBA-NEC statutory members,
following the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen.