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Controversy Looms As NJC Allegedly Recommends Relatives As Judges

Emmanuel Onminyi by Emmanuel Onminyi
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Nigerian lawyers under the aegis of Open Bar Initiative have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reject 33 candidates recommended to him by the National Judicial Council, NJC, for appointment as High Court judges of the Federal Capital Territory.

In a petition to President Buhari, the lawyers said that 17 of the NJC’s nominees were not just unqualified, but were able to make the NJC’s list because of their “connection” or “family affiliation” with top officials of the nation’s judiciary.

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The petition dated May 6, 2020, was signed by the conveners of the Open Bar Initiative, Silas Onu, and Chidi Odinkalu, alongside five other members of the group.

The group said in a press statement that it has forwarded the petition to the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

Among the nominees said to be unqualified for appointment as a judge in the petition is Hafsat Abba-Aliyu, 42, the daughter of Justice Uwani Abba-Aji of the Nigerian Supreme Court.

Another is Njideka Nwosu-Iheme, 36, the daughter of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court.

The list also includes Fatima Abubakar Aliyu, 35, said to be the daughter of the immediate past president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Bulkachuwa, and Mimi Katsina-Alu, 46, the daughter of late Justice Katsina-Alu, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, and Ibrahim Mohammed, 40, the son of a former grand-khadi of the FCT.

On the list also is Nwabulu Chineze, 57, said to be a sister to the presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Akure, and Enenche Eleojo, 46, a personal assistant to the chief judge of the FCT High Court.

A certain Olufola Olufolashade, according to the petition, was not even among the shortlisted candidates. The name was said to have been “smuggled” into the list by an unnamed top Supreme Court justice.

The petition said the selection process violated the NJC’s laid down rules and procedures and the High Court of the FCT (number of judges) Act, 2003.

The group said:

The selection process is fraught with judicial insider dealing which risk turning the judiciary into an instrument for advancing personal interest and patronage.

In a press statement, the group also said:

The suggestion that judicial service in Nigeria is an inheritance transmitted from parents to children is not supported by the Constitution or any other instrument under the Nigerian laws.

It said the NJC’s selection process was manifestly an abuse of the high constitutional responsibility invested in those who must nominate judges for an appointment.

The result of this abuse, the group further said, is that good candidates have been arbitrarily excluded from consideration in favour of unqualified candidates whose only claim to the job is the name or the job of their parents, husbands, uncles or other judicial insiders.

Odinkalu said:

These are not just unqualified nominees; they are bad nominees because only bad people will want to become judges through smuggling.

They will make bad judges. We should resist them and their sponsors.

Below is the full list of 33 persons recommended by the NJC to President Buhari for appointment as judges of the FCT.

  1. Muhammad Mustapha Adamu
  2. Madugu Mohammed Alhaji
  3. Josephine Obanor Enobie
  4. Kayode Agunloye
  5. Enenche Eleojo
  6. Nwabulu Ngozika Chineze
  7. Abubakar Babashani
  8. Aminu Muhammad Abdullahi
  9. Nwecheonwu Chinyere Elewe
  10. Ibrahim Mohammed
  11. Sadia Mu’azu Mayana
  12. Mimi Anne Katsina Alu-Apena
  13. Kanyip Rosemary Indinya
  14. Aliyu Yunusa Shafa
  15. Mohammed Zubairu
  16. Binta Dogonyaro
  17. Christopher Opeyemi Oba
  18. Adeyemi Ajayi Jadesola
  19. Abubakar Husseini Musa
  20. Adelaja Oluyemisi Ikeolupo
  21. Mohammed Idris Sani
  22. Frances Erhuvwu Messiri
  23. Fatima Abubakar Aliyu
  24. Jude Ogor Onwuegbuzie
  25. Hamza Mu’azu
  26. Edward Ajenu E. Okpe
  27. Agashieze Cyprian Odinaka
  28. Fashola Akeem Adebowale
  29. Aliyu Halilu Ahmed
  30. Hassan Maryam Aliyu
  31. Hafsat Lawan Abba-Aliyu
  32. Olufola Olufolashade Oshin
  33. Njideka Nwosu-Iheme
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