{"id":109232,"date":"2023-11-16T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109232"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:10:05","slug":"pept-justice-tsammani-rewarded-nominated-as-supreme-court-justice-21-others-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/interviews\/pept-justice-tsammani-rewarded-nominated-as-supreme-court-justice-21-others-full-list\/","title":{"rendered":"PEPT: Justice Tsammani rewarded, nominated as Supreme Court Justice, 21 others (Full List)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani tops the list of 22 Appeal Court judges nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) for elevation to the Supreme Court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The names of the nominees, which has been sent to the National Judicial Council (NJC) hail from various regions in the country, were revealed in an FJSC document obtained by journalists on Thursday, Pointblanknews.com\u00a0 reports.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe North-Central region has six nominees, while the South-West and South-South regions have two nominees each. The South-East region also has six nominees, and the North-East has two nominees. The development is coming after the retirement of Justice Amina Augie, which left the Supreme Court with only 11 serving justices.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Amina had retired from the bench, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 and further decreased the number of justices at the apex court to 11.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of the nominated justices revealed.<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH EAST<br \/>\n1 Hon Justice Nwaoma Uwa (Abia State)-Priority<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1A. Hon Justice Onyekachi Otisi (Abia State) -Reserve<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n2 Hon Justice Obande Ogbuinya (Ebonyi State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>2 A Hon Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua (Imo State)- Reserve<\/p>\n<p>3 Hon Justice Anthony Ogakwu (Enugu State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>3A Hon Justice Chioma Nwosu-lheme (Imo State)-Reserve<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH SOUTH<br \/>\n1Hon Justice Moore Adumein (Bayelsa State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>1AHon Justice Biobele Georgewill (Rivers State)-Reserve<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH WEST<br \/>\n1Hon Justice Adewale Abiru (Lagos State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>1A Hon Justice Olubunmi Oyewole (Osun State)-Reserve<\/p>\n<p>NORTH CENTRAL<br \/>\n1Hon Jummai Sankey (Plateau State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>1A Hon Justice Muhammad Ibrahim Sirajo (Plateau)-Reserve<\/p>\n<p>2Hon Justice Stephen Adah (Kogi State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>2A Hon Justice Ridman Maiwada Abdullahi (Nassarawa State) -Reserve<\/p>\n<p>3Hon Justice Baba Idris (Niger State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>3A Hon Justice Joseph Ikyegh (Benue State)-Reserve<\/p>\n<p>NORTH EAST<br \/>\n1Hon Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani (Bauchi State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>1A Hon Justice Abubakar Talba (Adamawa State)<\/p>\n<p>NORTH WEST<br \/>\n1. Hon Justice Muhammad Lawal Shuaibu (Jigawa State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>1A. Hon Justice Bello Aliyu (Zamfara State) -Reserve<\/p>\n<p>2. Hon Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar (Kebbi State)-Priority<\/p>\n<p>2A Hon Justice Abdullahi Mahmud Bayero (Kano State)-Reserve<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Justice Tsammani led a panel of 5 judges that affirmed the election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of Nigeria in spite of huge evidences which could have make the APC candidate ineligible to contest the election.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani tops the list of 22 Appeal Court judges nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) for elevation&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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