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CJN Onnoghen absent at Code of Conduct hearing

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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen Tuesday was absent at his code of conduct false assets declaration hearing.

The federal government it appears want the CJN to resign from his position and face trial.

A source in the Buhari administration revealed that strong claims were existing implicating the CJN on several fronts, including breach of extant laws bordering on corruption and conspiracies. This was the basis of the need to prosecute the CJN, he disclosed.

Per Second News exclusively gathered that there are clearly a lot picked up on the CJN by the security, most of which are Anti -Buhari.  The CJN is said to have engineered an action in a South-South state against the president, according to a senior official in the Buhari administration.

” The CJN  is alleged to have written the judgment on the APC case. The security picked up a couple of conversations by him boasting he was going to make sure the president didn’t come back. All of this is known to the people in government, according to senior administration officials.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been battling to stop the planned arraignment of Chief Justice Onnoghen before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

 

 

 

 

 

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