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He who comes to equity, as we all say, must come with clean hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, your Lordships must severe ties with anything that will smear your hands and bring you into disrepute in the course of your new assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I always say, even though judicial officers are not spirits or superhuman beings, so much impossible things are yet expected from them by society.<\/p>\n<p>Ariwoola added that the \u201cbench is neither for the indolent, the greedy nor those with dubious character, who can easily fall for a plate of porridge offered by desperate litigants\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must, at all times, rise above temptations and trials that might obstruct or even halt your rise to the pinnacle of your career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all humans, no doubt, but you display the humanism in you by doing those extraordinary things that people would ordinarily conclude that you cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what separates those with integrity and passion for success from those with low pedigree and dysfunctional moral compass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He admonished the judges to uphold the supremacy of the Nigerian constitution and eschew, in whatever form, the consideration of public opinions or conjectures when deciding cases Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), says the constitution and the rule of law must be predominant in the adjudication of legal matters. 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