Court Reserves Judgement In Two Appeals Filed By Justice Onnoghen

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reserved judgments in the four
appeals filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),
Justice Walter Onnghen.

A three-man panel of the court, led by Justice Stephen Adah,
after taking arguments from parties, in respect of the appeals,
said they will be informed when judgments were ready.

The appeals are CA/A/44c/2019; CA/A/CA/A/63c/19; CA:A/70c/2019
and CA/A/114c/2019.

Onnoghen is, by his first appeal, challenging the jurisdiction
of the CCT to hear the charge against him, being a serving judicial
officer.

He is, in the second appeal, querying the propriety of the CCT’s
ruling of January 14 this year, in which it elected to hear all
pending applications

The third appeal is against the CCT ex-parte order directing
Onnoghen to vacate office as CJN and for President Muhammadu Buhari
to appoint an acting CJN.

The fourth appeal challenges the competence of the warrant of
arrest issued against the suspended CJN by the CCT.

The arrest warrant, issued on February 13 this year, was vacated
by the CCT on February 15 when Onnoghen voluntarily attended the
sitting of the CCT, during which he was arraigned.