Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Joseph Daudu, SAN, has warned lawyers and practitioners in the  media who have been commenting on the Supreme Court’s  granting of stay of proceedings in the case against Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, using “uncouth language”, to beware of being held contemptuous of the highest court in the country.

Daudu, in a statement yesterday, expressed surprise that some lawyers were quoted in newspaper reports as describing the decision of the Supreme Court as “illegal”, a position, he said, was almost sacrilegious to take in the nation’s justice system.

He said: “That is most unfortunate as decency and elementary regard for the finality of the decisions of the Supreme Court should restrain every citizen of this country, particularly a legal practitioner,  from using such base and scurrilous language against the highest court of the land.

“It is a known legal axiom that a decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria cannot be illegal in any form or manner as it is binding on all persons and authorities in this country. If a person is aggrieved by the decision of the court, the only approach is to wait for an opportunity to arise and such a person can ask the Court to overrule itself or depart its earlier decision.”