Confirmation of Justice Amadi as Rivers next CJ divides lawyers
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By Egufe Yafugborhi & Davies Iheamnachor
Despite an ongoing strike by the parliamentary staff, which has left gates of the Rivers State House of Assembly shut for over a week, House members found a convergence to confirm Justice Simeon Amadi as the next Chief Judge of the state.
With the lawmakers nod concluding the process for selection of Governor Nyesom Wike’s choice nominee as CJ, any moment from now, Justice Amadi will be announced as Rivers substantive CJ, as his soon to be predecessor, Justice Adanma Iyayi-Lamikanran, will retire from active service in May 2021.
Paulinus Nsirim
Our attention has been drawn to an article titled: “Judiciary and the Future of Our Democracy, By Eddy Odivwri, published in Thisday Newspaper of December 25, 2020.
This write-up by Mr. Eddy Odivwri was excellent, almost to the point of being seminal in its critical appraisal of our judiciary and the future of our democracy, until the interloping and completely out of kilter imposition of the section sub-headed “Wike and Judicial Conjugation”, in which Odivwri attempted what can best be described as a totally jaundiced interpretation of the healthy relationship between Governor Nyesom Wike and the Rivers State Judiciary.
For starters, the title, “Wike and Judicial Conjunction” tends to suggest a kind of dubious marital connivance between the Rivers State Governor and the State’s Judiciary, but what Odivwri cleverly and deliberately omits is the fact that Governor Nyesom Wike himself is a lawyer and a member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers. His relation