Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has lambasted his colleagues in the legal profession over their unsolicited opinions on the Chicago State University (CSU) certificate saga of President Bola Tinubu, describing it as subjudice until the Supreme Court makes a judicial pronouncement on it.
Agbakoba’s position was contained in a statement released on Monday to newsmen, where he decried the media trial the certificate matter has been subjected to while calling on legal analysts engaging in such trials, whom he described as armchair lawyers, to keep their opinions to themselves instead of overheating the polity.
The statement read, “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 while awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court?” ” I am so ashamed to see lawyers on television arguing one way or another 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 in newspapers. I urge the President of the Nigerian Bar Association to call out lawyers who 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 that is binding on us all! This public nonsense must stop.”
