Stop Linking PMB To Judges’ Arrest – Presidency

Stop Linking PMB To Judges’ Arrest – Presidency

The Presidency has advised Nigerians to stop linking President Muhammadu Buhari to the legal travails of some Judges arrested  in the country recently.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said President Buhari would be the last person to authorise anybody to induce a judge to pervert the course of justice.

Shehu recalled that despite his personal familiarity with some court judges, the president had never used that familiarity to seek favours from them in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when he was challenging the fairness of the presidential election results from the lowest to the highest courts in the land.

The presidential spokesman also explained that, as a politician, Buhari had never  suggested to his lawyers to approach any judge for assistance to win his cases.

He said the President lives by this principle and has never deviated from it.

On the fate of the judges facing corruption allegations, Shehu said the president doesn’t tell courts how to do their jobs and that anybody accused of corruption is protected by law to defend his or her innocence.

He explained that the purpose of the law is to punish the guilty and acquit the innocent, noting that the law protects the rights of everyone.

He said the president doesn’t have any powers to force any court to convict anybody who is innocent, arguing that in a democratic society, that cannot happen without resistance by the people.