Legal luminary, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, has called for a halt in the numerous opinions by lawyers over the Chicago State University certificate saga.
Agbakoba, SAN, who used his social media handle to make the plea told fellow lawyers to keep their “opinions and views to themselves and await the decision of the Supreme Court.”
Agbakoba said he was ashamed to see Lawyers on Television arguing one way or the other on the merits or demerits of the Chicago State University matter while the matter was before the Supreme Court.
Read what he wrote:
“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 awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court.
I am so ashamed to see Lawyers on Television arguing one way or the other 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 Newspapers.
I urge the President of the Nigerian Bar Association to call out lawyers that 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 which is binding on us all!!!! This public nonsense must stop.”
-OA
