Indications emerging from the Presidency on Saturday confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan is ready to acton the recommendations of the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the matter involving the president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, once they get to his table.
It was confirmed that ateam of experts at the Presidency had looked at the situation and that a position paper presented to the president over the matter indicated that President Jonathan has to act on the recommendations contained in the NJC report.
Sources said though thepresident did not get the NJC document as ofthe close of work on Friday, he had ordered a background check of the situation before thedocument got to his table.
Sources also said the prevailing argument in the Presidency was that the nation’s seat of power could not afford to politicise the situation in the judiciary,an arm of government regarded as the hope ofthe oppressed.
A position paper that has been seen by Sunday Tribune concluded that while the president could have the intention of cleaning what was fastbecoming an embarrassing fight in the judicial arm of government, he cannot be seen to politicise the situation.
“In the unfolding situation, the judiciary apears to be in trouble. The two most important officers in that arm of government are at daggers drawn. The laid-down procedures were flouted in trying to resolve the issues internally. Since it is discovered that no legal breach was recorded along that path, the president cannot be seen to obstruct the recognised institutional checks and balances as contained in the constitution,” a source in the know quoted one of the positions in the seat of power.
Sources further confirmed that legal experts in the Presidency had observed that the NJC has performed its constitutionally-given duties as contained in Section 292 (1a and b) and that the president could not be seen to stand in the way of therule of law.
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