One of the lawyers, indicted by the committee setup by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to investigate the crisis in the judiciary Yahaya Mahmood has said that he was not given fair hearing on the grounds that he was neither summoned nor asked to make any submission by the panel during its sitting .
Mahmood who was among the 30 lawyers that was named for the award of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) recently, said unlike the NBA panel, he had testified before the National Judiciary Council (NJC)panel .
The NBA panel report had indicted the CJN, and Yahaya Mahmood and another Alfred Agu.
But some lawyers, Femi Falana and Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN) declined to comment on the NBA panel’s report saying they would rather do so during the NBA National Executive Meeting scheduled to hold in Katsina tomorrow.
It was however learnt that the NJC, having received Justice Umaru Abdullahi-led panel report, directed that the Chief judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, should review the panel’s report and summarise it.
But, further available information indicated that there was no evidence of monetary inducement against Salami and other justices of the Court of Appeal in the Osun and Ekiti governorship election appeal panel.
Besides, allegations over the GSM call-logs against Salami and other JCAs could not be proved as the communication firms disowned the call-logs.
The panel also discovered that the relationship between the CJN and PCA became sour due communication gap.
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