The Action Congress of Nigeria has said its opposition to the removal of Justice Ayo Salami as President of the Court of Appeal is driven by its belief in the adherence of the constitution and the rule of law.
The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday also slammed the Peoples Democratic Party for attacking the ACN.
The ACN said, “We are not crying more than the bereaved. We are actually the bereaved, and we will cry for as long as it takes to restore strict adherence to the rule of law. We are bereaved when the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is literally torn to shreds, as President Goodluck Jonathan did in acting on the illegal recommendation of the National Judicial Council.
“We are bereaved when the rule of law is supplanted with the rule of the jungle, as President Jonathan and the NJC did in the controversial removal of Justice Salami.”
ACN said those who were surprised by the party’s strong stance on the way the whole crisis in the judiciary had played out either lacked a sense of history or were being mischievous or both.
It said, “Do these people, most of them from the PDP and its sympathisers, remember that the ACN, more than any other party.”
By Agency Reporter Courtesy Of: Punch
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