*says purported comment work of mischief makers
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The National President of the Oke-Ogun Development Consultative Forum (ODCF) Barrister Ahmed Raji (SAN) on Friday, said that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kayode Ariwoola is non-partisan in his actions and utterances.
Barrister Raji made this known in Ibadan, while reacting to a statement purportedly credited to the CJN by an online newspaper
where he was said to have expressed happiness that the Oyo State governor is among the coalition of five governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
The legal luminary stressed that the purported report was nothing but the work of mischief makers, saying, there was never a time the CJN made such a statement at the inauguration of some judiciary projects embarked upon by Gov Nyesom Wike.
” I was at the said occasion at Port Harcourt and there was never a time the Chief Justice of the Federation said anything about being in support of the group of PDP five governors, he only made jokes about how the closeness between the Oyo State governor and governor Wike is strong which he attributed to the fact that governor Wike is the in-law of Seyi Makinde”, he said.
Barrister Raji added, “for anybody to think the Chief Justice of the Federation will come down to such level as discussing party issues is ridiculous”
The legal luminary then cautioned media organizations ” to please scrutinize information their reporters bring to them to avoid creating crisis and smear the images of people.”
