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Contempt Conviction: Court urged to compel Buhari to sack COAS
The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to among others, compel President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Faruk Yahaya owing to his conviction for contempt by a High Court in Niger State.
Listed as defendants in the suit are Yahaya, President Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami.
Justice Halima Abdulmalik of the High Court of Niger State on November 30 convicted Yahaya and the Commandant Training and Doctrine Command Minna, Major General Stevenson Olugbenga Olabanji, for willfully disobeying an earlier order made on October 12.
Justice Abdulmalik ordered that they be jailed until they purge themselves of the act of contempt.
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In his suit, Jideobi is contending that Yahaya’s conviction remains extant and subsisting since it has neither been suspended, stayed, vacated nor upturned on appeal.
Jideobi argued that the nation’s Constitution prohibits convicts from holding public positions.
He further argued that President Buhari has no constitutional powers to appoint a convict, who is sentenced to a jail term, as the Chief of Army Staff.
The plaintiff added that the “suit is brought in the interest of the public, to protect the dignity of the Nigerian Constitution and the Nigerian Army as a foremost institution of discipline which must not be led at any time by a convict more so a contemnor who treats the sacred orders and decisions of a duly constituted court with perfidious disregard.”
