Two justices of 2019 Presidential Election Petition Court nominated for Supreme Court appointments
In a statement on Friday, the Director of Information of the National Judicial Council, Mr Soji Oye, said that while Justice Abubakar represented the North-East Zone on the apex court’s bench, the rest, Justices Garba, Aboki and Saulawa, are to represent the 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 North-West, three from 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, Buhari is yet to approve the list of four Justices comprising Justices Adamu Jauro, Emmanuel Agim, Sam Oseji, and Helen Ogunwumiju, earlier recommended for appointment to the apex court’s bench since October last year.
The newly recommended justices will add to the previous four, to make a new list of eight candidates recommended for appointment to the apex court’s bench.
