A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Oba Maduabuchi, has asked Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court to resign.
He said the judge should be ashamed of still entering the court to deliver rulings.
This is following the Court of Appeal ruling on Tuesday that vacated the judgment that directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and four other political parties accused of failing to meet constitutional requirements.
Maduabuchi noted that the Judiciary has left its job and Is now involving itself in partisan politics.
“That is bad for Nigeria’s democracy,” he said on Arise News.
DAILY POST reports that the panel berated Justice Lifu for disobeying an order it had made on May 22 directing him to stay proceedings in the case pending the outcome of an appeal by the parties.
It noted that even though the trial judge’s attention had been drawn to the order for a stay of proceedings, he intentionally flouted it and went ahead to deliver judgment.
It held that Justice Lifu’s action was “a form of judicial impertinence”, stressing that the Supreme Court had previously held that a judge who acts in such a manner “is unfit for the bench, as the conduct amounts to judicial rascality”.
Reacting, Maduabuchi said the best thing for Lifu to do at this point is to resign, adding, “The judiciary has left its job, and is now involving itself in partisan politics. It is very obvious that there is a large
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