SAN FRANCISCO, February 10, (THEWILL) – Barely a day after the 2015 Governorship candidate of the APC in Rivers State, Dakuku Peterside accused Governor Nyesom Wike of meeting with Supreme Court justices before his election was validated, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mahmud Mohammed, has described those accusing judicial officers of corruption as being inconsiderate and ignorant of how the judiciary operates.
Noting that such criticisms are made without due considerations of the law and the system of government in Nigeria, he stressed that the judiciary is duty bound to act and would continue to act in accordance with the dictates of the law as it stands and not as its critics would want it to be.
Justice Mohammed, who is retiring from the judiciary after 38 years of service, made this assertion in Abuja on Wednesday while speaking at a special valedictory session organized in his honour.
Also speaking at the event, President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Augustine Alegeh strongly condemned the criticism of the Nigerian judiciary, noting that such act is “a deliberate attempt to disparage the judiciary”.
