The Nigerian Bar Association said the assertion that it did not speak up when President Muhammadu Buhari suspended a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, was not true.
The NBA President, Mr Paul Usoro (SAN), said this on Friday in response to the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, who had on Tuesday criticised the NBA and the judiciary for not standing up for the former CJN.
But while fielding questions from pressmen on Friday evening, Usoro said it was on record that the NBA not only condemned Onnoghen’s suspension by the President but also boycotted the courts in protest.
He said, “Distinguished Senator Abaribe suggested that the NBA did not do something; that the Senate was waiting for the NBA and the NBA did not do anything; that is not very correct. Read more