Judges lobby for election tribunal jobs - NJC

Tribune

30 March 2011

Judges lobby for election tribunal jobs - NJC

 

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THE National Judicial Council (NJC) has accused judges of lobbying for appointment as members of election petition tribunals, disclosing that some of them had served on the tribunals for eight consecutive years. The council’s disclosure, which was contained in a memo sent to all Heads of Court, both federal and state  judiciary, by the chief justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the Council, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, also stated that many judges turned a blind eye to a backlog of abandoned cases they had and scampered after tribunal appointment.