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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen justified some of the reasons the National Judicial Council, NJC approved the elevation of Judges to the Court of Appeal. Justice Onnoghen gave the reason at the Annual Conference of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Nigeria. The CJN stated that aside filling the vacancies that existed; it is also to prepare the court as the country approaches the election year.

“Your level of preparation, coupled with the determination of President, Mohammadu Buhari, to bequeath to Nigeria a legacy of credible election process, will guarantee the peace and stability we all desire” he said.

 

He added that he hoped that at the end of his tenure, he would be leaving a Judiciary that has been returned to its glory as a noble and enviable institution in all ramifications.

 

Remarking at the event, the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa shed more lights on the allegations bordering on exclusion of judges from the South-east zone of the country.

 

Justice Bulkachuwa stated that the process of elevation of judges to the court is based on merit with particular preference for judges who have distinguished themselves by the quality of their judgements.

 

“I would also like to seize this opportunity to straighten the fact on the ongoing process of elevation of Judges to the Court of Appeal. It is strictly based on merit with particular preference for Judges who have distinguished themselves by the quality of their Judgements in the lower Courts and to fill in vacancies created by the death, retirement or elevation to the Supreme Court of our former justices.”

 

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