{"id":297077,"date":"2011-03-10T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/10\/%e2%80%98katsina-alu-deputy-others-must-step-down%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:04:00","slug":"katsina-alu-deputy-others-must-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/10\/katsina-alu-deputy-others-must-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Katsina-Alu, deputy, others must step down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"82\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER) yesterday said the stepping aside of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Aloysius Katsina-Alu as chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) was not enough, as he could still influence the outcome of NJC\u2019s probe of the allegation of misconduct levelled against him by Court of Appeal President, Justice Isa Salami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It said the NJC was a party to the rift between Katsina-Alu and \u00a0Salami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CODER said any justice who had anything to do with the litigations leading to the arrested judgment of the Appeal Court on the 2007 Sokoto governorship dispute \u00a0should step down from the probe panel. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a statement by CODER\u2019s National Coordinator, Mr Ayo Opadokun, the group said the principle of law which stipulates that no one can be a judge in his own case is definitely applicable \u00a0in this instance and cannot be violated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It said the fact that the CJN had stepped aside has not significantly fulfilled the requirement for justice and fairness because he is the official head of the NJC and the grave allegations of attempt to pervert justice are against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CODER said the arrangements \u00a0to make Justice Dahiru Musdapher, who is Katsina-Alu\u2019s deputy, to \u00a0preside over the dispute is a total mockery of the due process requirement of law. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to CODER, \u00a0since it is a fact that Justice Musdapher was one of the justices who arrested the impending ruling of the Court of Appeal in the 2007 Sokoto Governorship election, he is already a participant in the matter and cannot be trusted to be impartial and unbiased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is not difficult to understand that since the CJN is the Chief Executive of NJC, the possibility that the members of the body will be persuaded one way or the other in sympathy to the Chief Executive is real given the wide discretionary powers of the CJN on that body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCODER hereby demands that the composition of the NJC must be by mutual consent of the two parties in order for the newly composed panel to do justice to all concerned. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFinally, every one of the justices who has sat in any of the litigations leading to the arrested judgment of the 2007 Sokoto Gubernatorial Appeal Tribunal should step down from the proposed panel. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cJustice must not only be done, it must be seen to have been manifestly done,\u201d CODER said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/88606cf0thumbnail.php_13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/web3\/news\/30373.html\" title=\"\u2018Katsina-Alu, deputy, others must step down\u2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Katsina-Alu, deputy, others must step down\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u00a0 The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER) yesterday said the stepping aside of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Aloysius Katsina-Alu as chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) was not enough, as he could still influence the outcome of NJC\u2019s probe of the allegation of misconduct levelled against him by Court of Appeal President, Justice Isa Salami. It said the NJC was a party to the rift between Katsina-Alu and \u00a0Salami. CODER said any justice who had anything to do with the litigations leading to the arrested judgment of the Appeal Court on the 2007 Sokoto governorship dispute \u00a0should step down from the probe panel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Katsina-Alu, deputy, others must step down\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/10\/katsina-alu-deputy-others-must-step-down\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Katsina-Alu, deputy, others must step down\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0 The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER) yesterday said the stepping aside of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Aloysius Katsina-Alu as chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) was not enough, as he could still influence the outcome of NJC\u2019s probe of the allegation of misconduct levelled against him by Court of Appeal President, Justice Isa Salami. 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