Despite the sudden resignation of Justice Walter Onnoghen on Thursday last week, President Muhammadu Buhari is to determine whether to accept the resignation of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), or sack him from office based on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC.
While you were asleep last night, President Buhari was determined to take ‘urgent and concrete’ action on the Onnoghen matter to serve as a deterrent to other top government officials who use their officices of engage in untoward activities, Vanguard gathered.
The President is expected to make a pronouncement on Onnoghen as soon as he returns from the Middle East where he had gone to attend several meetings bordering on investments and security.
According to top government official, yesterday, it was left for the President to accept the resignation of Onnoghen and allow him to be accorded with all the perks associated with the office of the CJN or sack him for misconduct and make him to lose all his entitlements as a top judicial officer, including a retirement mansion in Abuja.
"But one thing you can be sure of is that Buhari will not shield Onnoghen from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which has already drawn up a case against him, he said.
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