Nigeria’s Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, was on
Monday shut out of an event at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, commemorating a
new legal year.
The event is also earmarked
for the swearing in of a new set of Senior Advocates of Nigeria.
Mr. Dalung, himself a lawyer,
arrived the doors of the main courtroom of the Supreme Court around 10:10 a.m.
However, security officials
who had shut out a number of senior members of the bar and journalists from
entering the packed hall, politely turned back the minister.
Recounting his ordeal to some
concerned bystanders, Mr. Dalung blamed himself for the situation.
“The programme has started and
people are trying to say I am this or I am that but we are all lawyers, we know
that once the CJN has sat down you cannot enter. You can only plead but you
cannot show you are somebody here,” he said.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
and governors of Sokoto and Kogi states are among dignitaries attending the
ceremony.
The event is underway as at
the time of this report.
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