A Lagos-based lawyer, Lawrence Nnoli, has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos, with an application seeking to compel the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , to appoint more Supreme Cour
t Justices without further delay.
The Nigerian constitution provides for 21 Supreme Court Justices but following successive retirement of the justices without corresponding replacement, the number has overtime dwindled to 12 while the number of appeals going to the court from all over the country keeps increasing. In his suit before Justice Mohammed Liman, Nnoli said Buhari’s failure to appoint more Supreme Court Justice was “a serious breach of Section 231 of the 1999 Constitution and poses a grave danger to the course of justice in Nigeria.”
The lawyer told the court that the National Judicial Council had since October last year recommended four justices of the Court of Appeal to Buhari for appointment as Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to forward their names to the National Assembly.
The defendants in the suit marked FHC/C/CS/897/2020 are Buhari, the National Judicial Council, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and the Senate President.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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