Onnoghen: CUPP raises alarm over alleged plot to lock down NJC headquarters

- The CUPP has accused the federal government of trying to disrupt NJC's sitting on the case of ex-CJN Onnoghen and acting CJN Mohammed Tanko

- The umbrella body of opposition parties claimed that security agents would be used to lock down NJC headquarters in attempt to stop the decision of the judicial body

- CUPP spokesman Ugochinyere says the move is allegedly to get favourable ruling for the current acting CJN

Opposition parties in the country under the umbrella of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) have alleged that there is a plot to use security agents to lock down the headquarters of the National Judicial Council (NJC) at its resumed sitting on Monday, February 11.

It claimed that there is a plan to draft a combined team of security agents to cordon off the venue of the NJC meeting as it moves to decide the fates of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen and his successor Mohammed Tanko.

CUPP spokesperson Ikenga Ugochinyere, who made the claims in a statement on Sunday, February 10, said: “The operatives have been handed instructions that they should do whatever is necessary to ensure the NJC indicts the CJN and sets Justice Tanko Mohammed free from all allegations.”

He said in the statement sent to Legit.ng: “The security agents are to claim that there is intelligence of a possible breach of security which would warrant the increased security. They are to coax, coerce and show some members their unfavourable security reports to get them to do the bidding of the government.”

He claimed that this would all be in the attempt to arm-twist members of the NJC into doing the will of the federal government.

Ugochinyere also urged members of the NJC to resist the invasion and face its duty of correcting the alleged breach of the NJC guidelines and the 1999 Constitution.

“The plot to use security agents to attempt to intimidate members of the NJC is reprehensible, condemnable and repugnant and must be dismantled immediately as continuing with it will be one abuse too many in a constitutional democracy,” he said.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported earlier that the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar, said he is answerable to only the presidency and not any judicial institution.

Umar was reported to have said this in his reply to a petition against him by an NGO Incorporated Trustees of the Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative (ITCJPI).

According to Umar, neither he nor members of the CCT are not judicial officers and as such cannot be disciplined by the National Judicial Council (NJC) or the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC).

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