Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen will on Tuesday, 20th August 2024, at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, resume his legal battle against the judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, that ordered his removal from office in 2019.
The suit was filed at the Court of Appeal since April 2019.
The former head of the Nigerian judiciary is praying the Court of Appeal to void and set aside the CCT judgment delivered against him on April 18, 2019, on various grounds.
In his appeal marked CA/ABJ/375 & 376 & 377/2019, Justice Onnoghen through his lead counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, is asking the appellate court to quash his conviction primarily on ground of want of jurisdiction, bias and absence of fair hearing.
With Onnoghen as the appellant, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the sole respondent.
A notice for hearing of the appeal just sighted by DAILY POST is entitled, “CA/ABJ/375 & 376 & 377/2019 BTW: Justice Onnoghen and FRN”.
It read, “Please take notice that the above matter is listed for hearing on Tuesday the 20th day of August, 2024 at 9 o clock in Court Appeal, Abuja Division.
“Please take note that this serves as a hearing notice”.
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 government while in office as head of the country’s judiciary.
In the lead judgment delivered by Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Yakubu Umar, he had ordered the immediate removal of Onnoghen from office as the CJN.
The Tribunal had also stripped him of all offices earlier occupied among which were the Chairman of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and also 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
