The Nation Newspaper, November 4, 2025, by Olakunle Abimbola. Might Justice Isa Ayo Salami, revered jurist and retired President of the Court of Appeal, be seeking his own pound of flesh from former President Goodluck Jonathan?
Not likely, for Justice Salami’s profile paints a grave jurist with fealty to his calling, and he cuts the strict quintessential jurist, opposite of the frivolous.
His rather limited tribe is the very antithesis of the flippant hugging publicity for validation, to veil a natural core of full emptiness.
Still, Justice Salami’s dismissal of Dr. Jonathan’s yearning for a presidential encore echoes a past political tango between the two.
Author summary: Justice Salami's motives questioned.