 Published
February 11th, 2011
No tears for
Justice Ayo Salami. His cup is full and indeed overflowing.
All these allegations being spewed out like sewage against
the CJN and others are clearly indicative of the actions of
a drowning man holding on to the last straw. The Hon. CJN
should not even condescend to respond to them because that
would amount to dignifying trash with his high office. He
should simply ignore the rant of a drowning man who is
looking for the sympathy and empathy he hardly deserves.
Where is the evidence in writing of these allegations
against the Hon. Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu? Where
is the proof of these outlandish allegations? The man is
just throwing mud all over the place as he goes down the
drain in his own sewage. Nemesis has finally caught up with
him for his satanic role in the election petitions.
I saw this
coming a long time ago in view of the avalanche of
petitions against him; not only in the Sokoto Guber case
which he had clearly intended to rig but for the appeal to
the Supreme Court, but also in the several cases in the
south/west that were clearly rigged in favor of the ACN. How
in the world could a man who was socializing with Bola
Tinubu who is the chief beneficiary and instigator of these
fraudulent cases in Ekiti and Osun, be taken seriously and
be allowed to remain in the judiciary doing more damage to
the citadel of justice? How could a man who publicly
confessed in an interview of using only certain judges in
the Appeal Court to do his bidding be allowed to remain in
the judiciary? That confession alone is more than enough to
kick his butt. It's a shame that a man like Justice Salami
has been tolerated for this long at the Court of Appeal
wreaking havoc on the judiciary. He is out and out a
politician not a judge and that much is evident in the trash
he is throwing around with no decorum at all. The man has no
decency at all even in his language.
All those
shouting blue murder are, of course, the principal or
supporters of the principal beneficiaries of the fraudulent
judgments procured through Salami—the usual Lagos Axis of
Evil. What do you expect? They will not sit quietly and
watch their man go down like that. They will raise hell
because their man is going down and it will take some time
before they procure another Justice Ayo Salami to use to
“win” elections in the states. When ACN is raising hell
over the plight of Salami you don't need to consult the
oracle about what is happening. ACN only wins election
through the judiciary. It had been looking forward to having
another grand party with Salami again come the April
elections to grab yet more states in the west through him at
the Court of Appeal.
Let’s face
it: ACN is shedding tears because it will no longer have
their hatchet man in the Court of Appeal to do its bidding.
Shame on them! All their judge-made governors must be having
sleepless nights. They have to watch their backs because
their judicial backbone has been broken. The CJN did Ayo
Salami a great favor by elevating him to the higher bench.
He is completely undeserving of that higher position. He
should be dismissed outright from the bench because he is
huge stain in the Temple of Justice. He should not remain
in the bench one day longer.
And by the
way, why is he even resting promotion? Does the Court of
Appeal belong to his father, Tinubu and the ACN? Why is he
bent on remaining at the Court of Appeal? And why is ACN of
all parties jumping into his defense? What vested interests
does he have in the Court of Appeal that he does not want to
let go off? His refusal to be moved from the Court of Appeal
speaks volumes about the vested political interests he is
using his position to advance and promote at the Court of
Appeal which he will not be in a position to do at the
Supreme Court. Only those who have skeletons in their
cupboards refuse to go on vacation in Nigeria and refuse to
be moved to other positions. Since when have judges been
refusing promotions in Nigeria? He is refusing to be moved
because of what he and his patrons stand to lose.
Practically he owns the Court of Appeal and he has been
using it as it pleases him. There is no better evidence of
that than the dust he is kicking up for his promotion. He
can cry and kick all he wants but he is on his way out.
Definitely. He can’t be making all this mess and remain in
the judiciary. It’s unheard of. Let Tinubu and the ACN come
out to save his neck. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The CJN is a
courageous man, indeed, who has not only spoken against
corruption in the judiciary in the recent past and had been
receiving petitions against the likes of Salami, but is now
moving to reposition the judiciary ahead of the forthcoming
elections to do justice, not dispensing political judgments
like Salami. He knew what Salami had been doing and
probably did not want to humiliate him by recommending him
for dismiss. Yet he is kicking and shouting and wants to
die as president of the Court of Appeal. Don’t know what
gave him the right to think that he owns the Court of Appeal
and therefore cannot be moved elsewhere.
Of course
the CJN will be attacked by vested interests and ignorant
people. But he is definitely on the right track and should
not be deterred in his crusade to cleanse the Augean
stable. The man has seen and heard enough about the
terrible corruption in the judiciary. Even the NBA knows
what damage the likes of Justice Salami had been doing to
the judiciary and had even cried out in the recent past
through its president. Where were the professor Sagays and
all those crying wolf now when the NBA and other well
meaning Nigerians including several SANs were decrying the
role of corrupt judges in the elections tribunals and the
Court of Appeal? Where were they? They would not speak out
against corruption when their patrons are indicated or
implicated in corruption cases but raise hell when they’re
moved or cited for disciplinary actions. That is not how we
are going to win the war on corruption—through selective
treatment.
The case of
corruption against judges in the election tribunals is not a
matter of conjectures or suspicions but proven. Why would
Salami use hand-picked special panel of judges to do the
election petitions all the time and ignoring other competent
justices of the Court of Appeal? Are those the only judges
in the Court of Appeal who know the laws about elections in
Nigeria? Doesn’t that tell you something about what is
happening at the Court of Appeal under Salami even without
more? Would you be comfortable with such a man remaining
president of the Court of Appeal to preside over your
election petition? Would you? I know I wouldn’t and so
should you. Since that is the case, what is urgently needed
is to flush out the bad eggs in the judiciary like Justice
Salami and his cabal in the Court of Appeal. He has, by his
own confession, said that he has a special squad in the
Appeal Court that he uses to do his bidding. He only trusts
those special judges to do the work for him. That is not a
man that should remain on the bench a day longer. He should
go now. No more, no less. Period! There are many days for
the thief but there is one day is for the owner. And so
must it be with Justice Salami and the CJN.
Contacts:
mudiagaone@yahoo.com,
http://franklinotorofani.wordpress.com/
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