Former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of Rivers State, OCJ Okocha on Wednesday told Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu that the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo revolutionized the judiciary of Lagos state when both men served together between 1999-2007.
Okocha, a past president of the Nigerian Bar Association and founder of the Law Firm of Okocha & Okocha added that the Rivers State judiciary copied the model established by Osinbajo.
Speaking at a state banquet in honour of Tinubu in in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, he said, “Professor Yemi Osinbajo revolutionised the judiciary in Lagos state when you were governor and that is the template that most of us have copied in mending our rules of court and now have what we call front loading, Yemi did that and revolutionized the judiciary in Lagos state, we have tried to copy,” he said.
He urged Tinubu to appoint the best men and women when he takes office so that his administration and the country can succeed.
Chronicle NG reports that when Tinubu served as a two-term governor of Lagos State, Osinbajo served as the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice.
OCJ Okocha, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of Rivers State and also a Past President of the Nigerian Bar Association says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo revolutionised the judiciary in Lagos state via @tvcnewsng pic.twitter.com/FQMEgtX1eX
— Chronicle NG (@chronicle_ng) May 4, 2023
