Chief Justice Of Nigeria Moves Foreign Trip Over Ekiti Crisis

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, may have shelved her earlier plan to travel to Athens, Greece, next week Tuesday, after the meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.

Checks revealed that she was billed to travel to Athens for a stress management conference, alongside her brother justices, as well as heads of certain agencies of the judiciary and the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Sunday Olorundahunsi.

The reported change in her itinerary would now possibly see her join others at the conference on Thursday, October 16, depending on whether the swearing-in holds or not.

If the swearing-in is not held, it is likely that the trip would be entirely cancelled for her, considering the crisis that is expected to trail such development and the central role she is expected to play in solving the expected logjam.

It was learnt that though convinced that the suit on his eligibility was a pre-election matter that should have been sorted out earlier, the judiciary leadership was reportedly concerned about what to do in an event of the Ekiti High Court giving judgment stopping the swearing-in.

The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, had accused the presidency of deploying soldiers to the court handling Fayose’s case, to stop the planned judgment before the swearing-in.