CJN debunks rumours S’East is excluded in appointments of A’Court judges

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has described as false, claims that the National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended 14 Appeal Court judges for approval without any of them coming from the South-East part of the country.

Reports currently trending online accuse the NJC of making lopsided recommendations of 14 judges for approval as Appeal Court judges.

But responding to the claim, Onnoghen in a statement he released through NJC’s director of information, Soji Oye, described the rumours as “fake news.”

He said, “The attention of the National Judicial Council has been drawn to a purported list of Judges newly appointed to the Court of Appeal being circulated in public space and tragically reported as news item by credible news outlets.

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“The Council wishes to dissociate itself completely from the said list as nothing of such emanated from it. Members of the public are also advised to discountenance the said list which is nothing but a figment of the imagination of the author(s).

“In the days ahead, the council will speak more on the ongoing process for the appointment of Judges into different Cadre of the Nigerian Judiciary.”

 

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