Salami’s reinstatement: Adoke should be jailed – Tinubu

The former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has called for the immediate arrest of the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke over statement made on the suspended Appeal Court President, Isa Ayo Salami’s reinstatement saga. Adoke who recently spoke at a ministerial briefing said that the president might not adopt the decision of the National Judicial Commission [NJC] on recalling of Salami, which he described as Sub-judice. But, Tinubu noted that the issue had been turn by some prominent Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]members to be more political rather than legal issues The Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] National Leader noted that the purported legal suit was only filed by lawyers who are member of the PDP. According to him, “rather than persecuting Justice Salami, whose perceived sin was his adherence to legal principles in deciding some cases that affected the ruling PDP, the AGF should be placed in the dock for subverting the law”. He described President Goodluck Jonathan’s action as coup against the rule of law and a as a brutal attack on the golden principles of the rule of law. Tinubu appealed to all all jurists, all lawyers, the civil society and, particularly, the media, to stand for justice and demand Justice Salami’s reinstatement. He argued that the violation of the rule of law and constitutional checks and balances has to stop now before it gathers a momentum that brings irreparable harm.