S-Court, NJC feign ignorance as suspended CJN, Onnoghen resigns - Vanguard News Nigeria

Onnoghen, who is facing corruption charges, had reportedly succumbed to pressure and formally tendered his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.

Similarly, his counterpart at the NJC, Mr. Soji Oye, who said he was out of town, also denied knowledge of such development. Repeated calls to the telephone line of the media aide to the embattled CJN, Mr. Awassam Bassey were not answered, just as he had yet to return the call as at the time this report was filed.

It will be recalled that the NJC had in a statement on Wednesday, said it convened an emergency meeting to consider the report of the five-man committee it constituted to investigate allegations of misconduct that were levelled against both Onnoghen and the Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad. “Council also resolved that, by the nature of the decision reached, it would be inappropriate to publicise it before conveying it to Mr. President”, the statement read.

Pursuant to Rule 20 of the Judicial Discipline Regulations, the NJC, constituted a five-man investigation panel headed by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice S. A. Akintan, to look into allegations against the two top judicial officers.The CCT had earlier fixed April 15 for adoption of final briefs of argument in the six-count charge the federal government entered against Onnoghen.

Specifically, EFCC had in its petitions, alleged that Onnoghen received car and monetary gifts from lawyers, some of whom it said had pending cases in court. It gave names of the other lawyers their fund transfers were traced to accounts of the CJN as Mr. Emeka Etiaba, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Mr. Eze Duru Iheoma and Mr. Ogunsanya Adewunmi.

It alleged that funds that were traced to accounts of the Respondent were suspected to be part of proceeds of illegal transactions. He insisted that the car was never a gift to sway him to compromise in the discharge of his judicial duties. Onnoghen maintained that it was not tenable that he could collect a car gift to pervert justice in a case that was decided by a five-man panel of Justices that included the immediate past CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and the current Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad.

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