Nigeria’s Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of the plans to arraign the country’s Chief Justice, Walter Onnoghen before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) until Saturday.

Osinbajo, who disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking at the third Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) conference in Abuja said Buhari never had any fact of financial misdemeanor involving the CJN.

His words: I feel very sad that this is going on at all. President Muhammadu Buhari, his whole approach is that, institutions should just do their work. I can tell by fact that he did not know about this until Saturday evening.

“He did not know that there would be any kind of arraignment till Saturday evening. He has said categorically, don’t interfere with what the institutions are doing. Sometimes it has consequences like we have today.

“My take is that I’d rather not have a situation where members of my profession are being tried for an offence. I don’t feel good about it. As a matter of fact, I feel very sad about it, that it is going on at all. But that is my position on it but I want to say that this is the way it works.

“In the case of the Code of Conduct Bureau Chairman where these things are reported to, he is new, he is barely three weeks on the job but the specific instruction is that if you receive a petition, you have to go through the process.”