HON. JUSTICE C.C. NWAOGWUGWU V. THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA & ORS

HON. JUSTICE OLUFUNMILOLA OYELOLA ADEKEYE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant, Chukwuemka Comrade Nwaogwugwu, a judge of the Federal High Court Kano Division brought an application for judicial review of the Report and recommendation of the panel set up by the National Judicial Council and that of the Council with a view to quashing them pursuant to Order 47 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules 2000. In the application filed before the Federal High Court Abuja on 31/10/01 the appellant sought eight reliefs in the form of declaration, perpetual injunction, certiorari and prohibition against the seven Respondents in the instant appeal, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the National Judicial Council, Hon, Justice K.O. Amah, Mr. T.J. Okpoko SAN and the Federal Judicial Service commission. Prior to that application the governor of Cross River State Donald Duke wrote a petition…