{"id":65144,"date":"2025-04-30T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65144"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:34:22","slug":"njc-cracks-down-on-imo-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/30\/njc-cracks-down-on-imo-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"NJC Cracks Down on Imo Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Judicial Council has ordered the immediate reversal of the appointment of the Acting Chief Judge of Imo State, declaring the process unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In a bold move that reinforces its authority, the Council directed Governor Hope Uzodimma to cancel the appointment, citing procedural irregularities that violate the Nigerian Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The appointee has been given seven days to explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for accepting the position under such conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The NJC also faulted the President of the Imo State Customary Court of Appeal for presiding over the State Judicial Service Commission meeting that recommended the controversial appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The Council described the act as a breach of the Constitution and warned that sanctions may follow.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate but related development, a Justice of the Court of Appeal and several other judicial officers have been suspended for one year without pay, in what appears to be a broader effort to clean up the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Council\u2019s latest actions signal a renewed determination to uphold judicial ethics, protect the integrity of the bench, and ensure strict compliance with due process in all appointments and decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Judicial Council has ordered the immediate reversal of the appointment of the Acting Chief Judge of Imo State, declaring the process unconstitutional. In a bold move that reinforces its authority, the Council directed Governor Hope Uzodimma to cancel the appointment, citing procedural irregularities that violate the Nigerian Constitution. The appointee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65146,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144\/revisions\/65146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}