Agbakoba-led Third Force mobilising “unprecedented mass action” against President Buhari for suspending “corrupt” CJN
*Let Agbakoba be careful, Concerned Citizens warn
In the meantime, a Concerned Citizens Group which has been engaged in alerting the government over plots of gang up against President Buhari over the times has warned Olisa Agbakoba and others with him to steer clear the ongoing effort by President of the country to cleanse the nation’s judiciary of corruption. It said that the SAN will find out upon coming up with his threatened “unprecedented mass action” that all Nigerians have seen the truth about the problem of Nigeria to have been mostly caused or lubricated by three groups of professionals, “the judges, lawyers and journalists” and will resist them at any time.
For taking having the boldness to, in compliance with order of court, suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Samuel Onnoghen over corruption and other cases rubbishing the nation’s judiciary, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr. Olisa Agbakoba has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reinstate the suspended CJN or face mass action.
Agbakoba, whose voice was broadcast live on Channels TV Friday night saying the President had committed illegality for suspending Onnoghen adding that he would not go with it, is the leader of a Third Force Movement under the aegis of the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), which later in a statement signed by its Director, Media Bureau, Mr Debo Adeniyi, threatened an unprecedented mass action should the President not reinstate him in seven days.
NIM being jointly led by a frontline civil right activist and legal icon, Dr Olisa Agbakoba SAN and the son of a former Prime Minister of Nigeria, Dr Tafawa Balewa viewed the suspension of the CJN and the swearing in of the justice Tanko Ibrahim Mohammed as a threat to Nigeria’s fledgling democracy.
The group said it is putting President Buhari on a strong notice that at the end of seven days from today, if he fails to reinstate the CJN they will be compelled to mobilise a coalition forces of ni-Nigerian civil society and leaders of conscience across the country to confront the Buhari regime with an unprecedented mass action to save Nigeria’s democracy.
A meeting of the coalition of forces against the Federal Government has been slated to hold on Thursday 31st January in Lagos to kick start a nationwide mobilisation to save democracy ahead of the 2019 elections.
Below is a full statement that contains the position of the third force move on the issue of Justice Onnoghen’s suspension.
In the meantime, a Concerned Citizens Group which has been engaged in alerting the government over plots of gang up against President Buhari over the times has warned Olisa Agbakoba and others with him to steer clear the ongoing effort by President of the country to cleanse the nation’s judiciary of corruption.
The group led by Wale Ogunyemi told The DEFENDER that the SAN will find out upon coming up with his threatened “unprecedented mass action” that all Nigerians have seen the truth about the problem of Nigeria to have been mostly caused or lubricated by three groups of professionals, “the judges, lawyers and journalists” and that Nigerians would be ready to resist their gang up of Third Force at any time.
