Ekiti State Government has urged the judiciary to sanction former President Olusegun Obasanjo for violating the court order restraining him from publishing or circulating his book, entitled: ‘My Watch.’
The state government described the former President’s action as a deliberate impunity and contempt of court, adding that sanctioning Obasanjo was necessary “to serve as deterrent to other people, who see themselves as ‘super powers’ far and above the laws of the land.”
In a statement by the state Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Owoseni Ajayi, the state government said the sanctity of the judiciary should be protected.
It wondered that despite the clear and unambiguous ex parte Order given by Justice Valentine Ashi of an Abuja High Court on December 5 restraining Obasanjo from publishing or circulating the book before the December 10 return date, the former president did not only publish the book, but went ahead to circulate it.
Ajayi stated that “in the lexicon of our legal jurisprudence, a court order, however, frivolous, must be obeyed until it is discharged by that court or set aside by another court.
“It is, therefore, a deliberate impunity and disregard to the rule of law and our judiciary for Chief Obasanjo to disobey the said order made by a competent court of law. It stands condemnable.”
The state government, stated further that the society is governed by the rule of law, separation of power and respect to constituted authorities: “Nobody is immuned against these simple tenets of ensuring sanity, discipline and decorum in our society.
“Otherwise our society will revert back to the Hobenian State where life was short, nasty and brutish,” it stated.
Ajayi lambasted the former President for seeing other leaders including President Goodluck Jonathan; former military ruler, General Muhammad Buhari; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu as “satanic agents to be sent to the gallows for persecution.
“This gives the impression that only Obasanjo is a saint. But he must be told the truth that he is not a saint,” he stated.
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