{"id":16194,"date":"2019-10-01T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16194"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:51:22","slug":"osinbajo-asked-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign","title":{"rendered":"Osinbajo asked to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Realwan Okpanachi, a constitutional lawyer in Abuja, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, cannot waive his immunity.<\/p>\n

The legal practitioner told NAN on Monday in Abuja that the only effective way Osinbajo could waive his immunity, \u201cif he sincerely desires to do so is to resign from his position as vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe cannot remain in office and waive his immunity as the immunity is attached to that office and not his person,\u201d the lawyer said.Okpanachi was reacting to the\u00a0statement credited to the vice president<\/a>\u00a0that he would waive his constitutional immunity to clear his name over the N90 billion he allegedly received from Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).<\/p>\n

The lawyer said that Section 308 of the Constitution, which raises arguments in some quarters that the vice president could not institute any case in his name no longer represent the position of the law.<\/p>\n

He said the case of I.B.M. Securities Plc. Vs Ahmed Bola Tinubu as decided by the Supreme Court being relied upon by those holding such opinion was no longer tenable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current position of the law as expressed by the Supreme Court in the case of Global Excellence Communications Ltd. &Ors.Vs Mr Donald Duke (2007) LPELR-1323(SC).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe apex court held that had the legislature intended to prohibit any of the holders of the offices listed in section 308(1) of the constitution from instituting cases in the names in their tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would have expressly stated it, and that, since there was no such express provisions, then they are entitled to institute court case during their tenure,\u2019\u2019 Okpanachi said.<\/p>\n

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Mr Realwan Okpanachi, a constitutional lawyer in Abuja, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, cannot waive his immunity. The legal practitioner told NAN on Monday in Abuja that the only effective way Osinbajo could waive his immunity, \u201cif he sincerely desires to do so is to resign from his position as vice president.\u201d \u201cHe cannot remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,849,296],"class_list":["post-16194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-osinbajo","tag-tinbu"],"yoast_head":"\nOsinbajo asked to resign - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr Realwan Okpanachi, a constitutional lawyer in Abuja, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, cannot waive his immunity.The legal practitioner told NAN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Osinbajo asked to resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr Realwan Okpanachi, a constitutional lawyer in Abuja, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, cannot waive his immunity.The legal practitioner told NAN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-01T15:51:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Osinbajo-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Osinbajo asked to resign\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-01T15:51:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Osinbajo-1-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"Osinbajo\",\"Tinbu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/osinbajo-asked-to-resign\",\"name\":\"Osinbajo asked to resign - 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