invented into the lexicon of contemporary Nigerian political discourse, following the ascendancy of the Buhari presidency, in 2015. It is a theorem that enables aides of the president and government functionaries to deduce from the non-verbal attitudes, dispositions and signs of their principal, what he expects them to do in every situation.
On the night of Sunday, June 26, 2022, Buhari received an unexpected correspondence from the immediate past chief justice of Nigeria , Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad. He had notified the president in his mail that he was retiring voluntarily from office “with immediate effect”, an expression loaned from our several decades under military rulership. Muhammad pleaded faltering health as the grounds for excusing himself from office.
US-based Nigerian attorney, Emmanuel Ogebe, has proffered that: “Tanko came to office with a palpable integrity deficit”. Ogebe advanced this in his post-disengagement tribute to Muhammad, which he titled ‘Justice Tanko’s Resignation: End of an error’. What was to follow, Ogebe noted, “was further proof of his competency deficiency. The judge who couldn’t define technicality in his senate confirmation hearing, apparently was technically unfit to be chief justice of Nigeria,” Ogebe submitted.
For the first time in the history of the supreme court, a total of 14 out of 16 justices in the court, authored a jointly signed petition days before Muhammad’s resignation. They decried abysmal working conditions under his leadership. They drew attention to the homelessness of many judges and the unsavoury conditions they had to work in.
The former CJN reportedly spent weeks in recent months being variously scrutinised for all manner of malfeasance. There was a report to the effect that Muhammad was queried by the SSS over a $10 million bribe reportedly collected on his behalf by one of his children, for a favour requested by Aliyu Wamakko.
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