Breaking: APC celebrates Onnoghen’s resignation, says Buhari, party proven right

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said events leading to the resignation of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, have proven right President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) over his earlier suspension.

Onnoghen, who was supended by President Muhammadu Buhari CJN by on the Code of Conduct Tribunal over his failure to declare his assets, on Thursday tendered his resignation after weeks of back and forth in the law courts.

When asked to react to the development on Friday in Abuja, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said reasonable Nigerians knew from the word “go that those allegations were not cooked up” against the suspended CJN, Onnoghen.

Issa-Onilu said: “Now, events have proven the President right. Events have proven the party, APC right. Events have proven those Nigerians who believe Nigeria first and any other things after – events have proven them right.

“We all can only be hiding behind one finger, otherwise we knew Nigerians, reasonable Nigerians knew from the word go that those allegations were not cooked up and if they were real, the next thing for the CJN to have done was to have stepped aside and the question of, he wouldn’t be the only one, why him? There is no where in the world where judgment is passed on every sinner at once.

“It is not every armed robber you can catch the same day. And even some of you know, the slow will of justice may not catch up with them immediately but we must continue to see evidence that we are moving towards that sanity that we are making progressive efforts and sending strong signals to people who think this country must continue as long as they are comfortable and the rest of Nigerians are suffering. We must send that signal to them. It is not going to be business as usual.

“Now, you have seen the head of National Assembly, Senate President, you have seen him in the dock. Now, you have seen the CJN in the dock. So, one day, we will see a President that will also misbehaves, in the dock which now shows that nobody is above the law of this country that we are all equal before the law. So, anybody who finds himself in any position, should now begin to look closely at his own actions knowing fully well that today may protect him but tomorrow may expose him.”

While responding to the outrage which followed Chief Onnoghen’s suspension, the APC spokesman said: “The issue we have in this country is that, many people, especially those who have been part of the impunity of the past who are struggling badly to adjust to the reality of rule of law. That is the major issue we are facing in this country. There is so much struggle to allow the past that is not good enough for us as a country to allow it go and for all of us to rise and face the future, future of promise, future of change, so that we can move to the ‘Next Level’.

“When this happened, as usual, especially PDP and some of their allies, the Civil Societies, not the entire community of the civil societies because some of the allies of PDP, including PDP, everything they read were the barometer of politics and we do know that, until we all rise above sentiments, no matter what part of the divide you find yourself and we see first and foremost this as an issue that has to do with our country. That is the only way we can progress.

“We knew right from the beginning that what the immediate past CJN (that is if his resignation letter is accepted)… the allegations were too serious and we know that the President does not act on frivolities, he must have done his background checks, he must have gotten good information to have taken the action he took and not just taking that action.”

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