The National Judicial Council (NJC), has advised President Muhammadu to make Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), according to The Nation.
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The paper reports that the advice is one of many others including urging Buhari to give suspended CJN Justice Walter Onnoghen soft-landing by retiring him with full benefits the NJC gave the president on the lingering crisis occasioned by Onnoghen’s suspension. .
However, the report said while the president concurred with the advice on Tanko, he discountenanced the one about Onnoghen.
“Since he received the NJC’s recommendations, the President has been thinking of how to manage the situation without rubbishing the anti-corruption agenda of his administration. He has the right to accept or reject the council’s recommendations on Onnoghen.
“The President is already seeking legal opinion on legal issues surrounding the NJC’s decisions. He does not want to set a bad precedent in tackling this Onnoghengate,”it quoted an unnamed government source as saying.
