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 former head of the Nigerian judiciary, in a suit filed at the Court of Appeal is praying the Court to void and set aside the CCT judgment delivered against him on April 18, 2019, primarily on ground of want of jurisdiction, bias and absence of fair hearing.
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, a judgement Onnoghen appealed in 2019 with 16 grounds on why his conviction by the Tribunal should be quashed.
