SUSPENSION OF THE HON. CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA:
The Bar resolved the following in a motion moved and seconded by Chief C.C. Onyeagbakor and L.U.N. Nwakaeti, Esq respectively
1. That Owerri Bar rejects in its entirety the purported and unconstitutional suspension of the Hon. CJN by the President of FRN.
2. That Owerri Bar hereby empowers the chairman and executive members of the Bar to attend the NEC meeting of the NBA on Monday 28/01/2019 and insist on the branch position that all legal process must be followed to ensure that this Constitutional breach is reversed.
3. That in addition to (2) above, Owerri Bar resolved that NBA should take all other steps including but not limited to the total boycott of Courts and if the need arises the shutting down of the polity in collaboration with Civil Society Groups.
4. That the Attorney General of the Federation and the Vice President be called upon to resign for being complicit in the Constitutional breach.
5. That in addition to (4), the Attorney General of the Federation and the Vice President should face disciplinary committee of the Bar for disciplinary actions; and
6. That in line with the precedent laid in Abia State, that the NJC should dismiss the purported Acting CJN who presented himself to be sworn in, in circumstances that they are in pari material with Abia State case.
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