NJC Releases List Of Nominees For Supreme Court Appointments
The members of last year’s presidential election petition tribunal have been recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari, for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court.
Two of the justices are Aboki Abdu and Mohammed Garba, who headed the five man court.
The other two who made the list of four candidates recommended for the appointment as Justice of the Supreme Court Justices Tijjani Abubakar and Mohammed Saulawa.
A statement by Director of Information of the National Judicial Council, Soji Oye, disclosed this on Friday that while Justice Abubakar represented the North-East zone on the apex court’s bench, the rest of Justices Garba, Aboki and Saulawa, are to represent North-West.
According to Oye, the current 12 justices, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, comprised two Justices from North-Central, one from the North-East, one from the North-West, three from the South-East, one from the South-South and three from the South-West.
The Supreme Court, currently with 12 Justices on its bench, has been seeing a steady decline in the number of the Justices in the last two years.
Despite the persistent decline in the number of Justices, President Buhari refused to attend to the list of four Justices comprising Justices Adamu Jauro, Emmanuel Agim, Sam Oseji, and Helen Ogunwumiju, recommended to the President for appointment to the apex court’s bench since October last year.
The newly recommended four nominees will add to the previous four, to make a new list of eight candidates recommended for appointment to the apex court’s bench.
