LAGOS — Movement for Democratic Sustainability, MDS, has urged critics of suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, to stop making remarks that would overheat the polity and allow the matter currently in court take its normal course.

MDS in a statement in Lagos, said critics of the president’s action are acting on bad faith and should rather praise Jonathan’s action as one intended to “safeguard the integrity of the judiciary.”

Publicity Secretary of the group, Afam Iheanacho, said: “It is highly regrettable that some disgruntled card-carrying members of some political parties and opponents of the government had accused the President of arbitrariness in a glaring case, where he acted in good faith to save the judiciary from embarrassment by acting on the recommendation of the NJC.

“The president did not err in his action, which is now in the court and should not be subject to misinterpretation. It is in bad taste for these agents of division to politicise the suspension of Justice Salami.”