Buhari. Photo/TWITTER/NIGERIAGOV
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order 10 seeking to confer autonomy on the judiciary was unnecessary and ill-advised.
Explaining that they never questioned the right of the President to issue executive orders, the state chief executives observed that Section 121(3) that touched on independence of the judiciary never required presidential fiat to become implementable.
The forum said it expected Buhari to have consulted widely before issuing the order, adding that exercising such powers unilaterally amounted to illegality. x
The governors expressed their resolve for the autonomy of the judiciary and legislature. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, who was speaking yesterday in Ado Ekiti at the Attorney General’s colloquium titled “Judicial Autonomy: Perspective of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, organised by the Ekiti State Ministry of Justice Acad
âFor us as the staff, if the place of work is not conducive, it is our right to champion the cause of making our workplace a better place. When we have our autonomy, then the welfare of the staff would be better discussed with the heads of the court.â
As the strike has dragged on, Ebun and thousands of others awaiting trial have been stuck in prison.
Juwon Sanyaolu, 29, a political activist based in Lagos, was arrested with several others in January in Abuja for protesting against government corruption and detained for 11 days.
He has been released on bail but the government has brought a case against him and the other protesters. He was due to appear before magistrates on 5 May but the court closure has left him in limbo.
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has threatened to stop the salaries of judiciary workers in the state if they do not call off their strike by the end of May.
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