The National Judicial Council (NJC), will meet tomorrow, to consider the retirement notice of the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, Nigerian Tribune, has learnt.
The first female CJN in the history of the nation, is retiring on November 20, when she would clock the mandatory retirement age of 70.
She put in her retirement notice in fulfilment of the statutory tradition of so doing, three months before the actual date.
The most senior justice of the Supreme Court and vice-chairman of the council, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, was tipped to succeed her, in the sustenance of the succession-by-seniority tradition.
However, the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), saddled with the responsibility of nominating candidates for judicial appointments to the council, is yet to sit.
It could not be confirmed if a date had been fixed for its meeting.
Mohammed hails from Taraba State and expected to retire on November 10, 2016, when he would be 70 years.
His nomination, according to the source, would likely be in October, when the next meeting of the NJC had been scheduled.
The October meeting is also to consider those shortlisted for appointment as new judges of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that five names had been cleared by the FCT Judicial Service Commission, without anyone from the South-West.
The zone has no vacant slot.
Meanwhile, tension is reportedly building in Nasarawa State, ahead the council sitting, over the fate of its embattled Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko.
Dikko was dragged before the court by the members of the state House of Assembly over alleged partisanship in the composition of the seven-man impeachment panel that threw out the allegations against Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura.
Source: Tribune
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