It is a celebratory season for the family of Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will tomorrow swear in his wife Eberechi Suzette Wike and his cousin Lesley Nkesi Belema Wike as justices of the Court of appeal and High Court of the FCT respectively.
The event which will take place Wednesday at the Supreme Court’s ceremonial hall will also see 21 other justices including Nnamdi Okwy Dimgba, Isaq Mohammed Sani and Eleojo Enenche elevated to the Court of Appeal.
The CJN will also swear in 12 legal practitioners as judges of the FCT High Court including his daughter-in-law Victoria Oluwakemi Ariwoola (Oyo State), Buetnaan Mandy Bassi, daughter of the President Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem (Plateau State), Maryam Iye Yusuf (Kogi State) CJ FCT’s daughter, Ademuyiwa Olakunle Oyeyipo (Kwara State), a scion of an ex-Chief Judge of Kwara State, Hon. Justice Timothy Oyeyipo, Hauwa Lawal Gummi (Zamfara State), daughter of ex-CJ FCT, Hon. Justice Lawal Hassan Gummi, Ibrahim Tanko Munirat (Bauchi State) daughter of former CJN Tanko Ibrahim.
A statement made available to journalists by the Director of Information & Public Relations at the Supreme Court, Dr. Akande Festus, identified those who will be inaugurated into the bench of the Court of Appeal as Abdullahi Muhammad Liman from Nasarawa State; Abiodun Azeem Akinyemi from Ogun State; Olukayode Adegbola Adeniyi from Oyo State; Zainab Bage Abubakar from Kebbi State; Isaq Mohammed Sani from Kaduna State; Lateef Babajide Lawal-Akapo from Lagos State; Ngozika U. Okaisabor from Imo State, Donatus Nwaezuoke Okorowo from Enugu State; Ruqayat Oremei Ayoola from Kogi State; Polycarp Terna Kwahar from Benue State; Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike from Rivers State; Fadawa Umaru from Borno State; Oyewumi Oyejoju Oyebiola from Oyo State; and Ntong Festus Ntong from Akwa Ibom State; Nehizena Idemudia Afolabi from Edo State; and Nnamdi Okwy Dimgba from Abia State.
Others are Abdu Dogo from Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; Abdulazeez M. Anka from Zamfara State; Owibunkeonye Onwosi from Ebonyi State; Asma’u Akanbi-Yusuf from Kwara State; Victoria Toochukwu Nwoye from Anambra State; and Enenche Eleojo from Kogi State.
The others to be sworn in as judges of the FCT High Court are: Bamodu Odunayo Olutomi (Lagos State); Iheabunike Anumaenwe Godwin (Imo State); Odo Celestine Obinna (Enugu State); Sarah Benjamin Inesu Avoh (Bayelsa State); (Kogi State); and Abdulrahman Usman (Taraba State).
The President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice M.B Dongban-Mensem had requested the appointment of 22 new Justices to the Court of Appeal.
