Chairman of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON),Tony Okoroji, on Monday began an indefinite one-man protest in front of the Federal High Court, Lagos.
The embattled COSON leader protested with placards alone due to the transfer of a crucial case to a new judge, which would define if the group, Musical Copyright Society Nigeria (MCSN) is truly an approved society to collect royalties on behalf of musicians.
Okoroji noted that his action has become essential to draw the attention of the world to a new and dangerous attempt to destroy the Nigerian judicial system by the blackmail of a Nigerian judge to force him not to deliver a judgment written by him.
He is urging all lawyers and judges in the Nigerian legal system to insist that the case file in Suit No FHC/L/CS/1259/2017 which he said was taken away in strange circumstances from Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, just as he was about to deliver judgment in the suit, be returned to the judge so that he can deliver his judgment and any of the parties dissatisfied with the judgment can proceed to the Court of Appeal.
Okoroji was insistent that some people desperately do not want that question answered hence the muscling of Justice Ibrahim Buba and the failed machinations to remove Okoroji himself as Chairman of COSON.