The Court of Appeal will on Tuesday hear a suit filed by former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, challenging the order by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, which removed him from office in 2019.
In the suit that was filed in 2019 at the Court of Appeal, Onnoghen is praying the Court to void and set aside the CCT judgment delivered against him on April 18, 2019, on various grounds.
In his appeal marked, Justice Onnoghen, is asking the appellate court to quash his conviction primarily on grounds of want of jurisdiction, bias, and absence of fair hearing.
This is contained in a notice of Appeal sited by ait.live
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal had in 2019 convicted Onnoghen in all the 6-count charges of breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers brought against him by the Federal Governement while in office as CJN.
In the lead judgment delivered by Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Umar, he had ordered the immediate removal of Onnoghen from office as the CJN.
The CCT also stripped Onnoghen of all offices earlier occupied among which were the Chairman of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and the chairmanship of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.
The tribunal also ordered the forfeiture of his five bank accounts and the money in the accounts which Onnoghen did not declare in his asset declaration form submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, an agency of the Federal Government.
Dissatisfied with the tribunal’s decision, Onnoghen approached the Court of Appeal with 16 grounds on why his conviction by the Tribunal should be quashed, in 2019.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
