—President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, declined to respond to a suit seeking to declare that the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, is unfit to head the judiciary in substantive capacity.
The plaintiff is urging the court to declare that Justice Muhammad, who is currently the most senior jurist at the Supreme Court, was not capable to replace Onnoghen. Meantime, of the seven respondents, only NJC, FJSC and Justice Muhammad were represented in court, yesterday. Though it was confirmed that President Buhari, AGF, Federal Government and Senate, were duly served with hearing notices, however, no reason was given on why they spurned the court’s summons.
The Plaintiff is, among other things, urging the court to declare that the suspension and/or removal of a CJN from office, was a shared responsibility of the 1st Defendant , 5th defendant and 7th Defendant . He, therefore, applied for a court order to restrain the National Assembly from confirming any appointment of Justice Muhammad as the substantive CJN.
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