{"id":85799,"date":"2023-11-19T03:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=85799"},"modified":"2023-11-19T03:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:06:23","slug":"njc-knocks-osun-gov-over-cjs-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/njc-knocks-osun-gov-over-cjs-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"NJC Knocks Osun Gov Over CJ’s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A member of the council, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, said the NJC was the only body that could investigate and recommend sanctions for judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The council member said, \u201cA state government cannot discipline, sanction or sack the chief judge of a state without recourse to the NJC. This applies to judges. If they claim they\u2019ve carried the NJC along, they should have waited for the NJC to investigate her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NJC is the only body empowered by the constitution to investigate judges and recommend appropriate sanctions to the President if it is a federal court, and the governor if it is a state. State governors and Houses of Assembly members can\u2019t remove the state Chief Judge. The NJC is the only body that can suspend judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe same situation happened in Sokoto, where the House of Assembly sacked the CJ, Aisha Dahiru, and the Supreme Court nullified it. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has berated the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the state House of Assembly for removing the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Oyebola Ojo, saying they lack the power to suspend or discipline any judge. A member of the council, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6583,44],"tags":[8899,129],"class_list":["post-85799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-politics","tag-cj","tag-njc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85801,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85799\/revisions\/85801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}