CCT Trial/Conviction: A-Court decides Onnoghen's fate Friday - Vanguard News

ABUJA – The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, will on Friday, deliver judgement on four separate appeals the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, filed to challenge his trial and conviction by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja.

The Mr. Danladi Umar-led three-man panel tribunal said it was satisfied that FG successfully proved its allegation that Onnoghen who had voluntarily resigned his position as CJN on April 4, acted in breach of the code of conduct for public officers in the country. Aside giving FG the nod to confiscate all the monies in the accounts, the tribunal further deposed Onnoghen as the CJN and Chairman of both the National Judicial Council, NJC, and the Federal Judiciary Service Commission, FJSC.Dissatisfied with the verdict, Onnoghen who was initially suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 25, filed 16 grounds of appeal to challenge his conviction.

Onnoghen insisted that it was wrong for the tribunal to hear and determine FG’s motion when its jurisdiction to entertain the substantive charge was being challenged. In the four grounds of appeal he filed on Tuesday, Onnoghen, argued that the CCT erred in law by granting an ex-parte order for his removal, even it had yet to determine whether or not it has the jurisdiction to try him.

He further contended that the CCT Chairman ought to have recused himself from presiding over his trial.

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