This utter nonsense from armchair lawyers is heating up Nigeria dangerously. Please can we keep our opinions and views to ourselves awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court.
Foremost human rights activist and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (2006-2008), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has weighed in on the roiling controversy over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s academic records, saying: This madness must stop now!
Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and founder of Nigeria’s foremost human rights organization, the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), made the intervention, Monday, on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, @oagbakoba.
He particularly had harsh words for some lawyers who he referred to as “armchair lawyers” who chase television cameras to sing discordant tunes on the matter between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and President Tinubu.
“The cacophony of discordant voices on Tinubu/Atiku over the certificate matter is completely out of hand,” Agbakoba declared matter-of-factly. “This utter nonsense from armchair lawyers is heating up Nigeria dangerously. Please can we keep our opinions and views to ourselves awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court.
“I am so ashamed to see Lawyers on Television arguing one way or the other on the merits or demerits of the Chicago State University matter. This is most unhelpful! I call out all media that tolerate this nonsense of adjudicating the CSU matter on TV and Newspapers.”
Blow is the full text of Agbakoba’s intervention on X:
THIS MADNESS OF CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY MUST STOP NOW!!! The cacophony of discordant voices on Tinubu/Atiku over the certificate matter is completely out of hand. This utter nonsense from armchair lawyers is heating up Nigeria dangerously. Please can we keep our opinions and views to ourselves awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court. I am so ashamed to see Lawyers on Television arguing one way or the other on the merits or demerits of the Chicago State University matter. This is most unhelpful! I call out all media that tolerate this nonsense of adjudicating the CSU matter on TV and Newspapers. I urge the President of the Nigerian Bar Association to call out lawyers that breach rules of ethics by turning the media into a Court of Law. Can we please stop heating up our country!!! Let us allow the Supreme Court of Nigeria to make a judicial pronouncement which is binding on us all!!!! This public nonsense must stop. – OA.
