NBA Asks Court To Bar Powerful Nigerian Minister From Holding Public Office (DETAILS)

NBA Asks Court To Bar Powerful Nigerian Minister From Holding Public Office (DETAILS)

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has taken Dame Pauline Tallen, Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, to a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja High Court, asking the court to bar her from holding any public office in the country.

In the suit, the NBA accused the Minister of inciting citizens to defy a court of competent jurisdiction.

It was alleged that the minister described a Federal High Court decision that sacked the country’s only female governorship candidate, Aishatu Binani, as a “kangaroo judgment” in a speech she gave at a public function.

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It was noted that the judgment, delivered on October 14, was in a suit filed against the All Progressives Congress, APC, by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

“The ruling that sacked Aishatu Binani, the country’s only female governorship candidate, is a kangaroo judgment that should be rejected by well-meaning Nigerians,” the Minister reportedly said in response to the judgment. The court has ruled that the party does not have a candidate. This is intolerable. It’s a kangaroo decision, but we’re not giving up.”

According to NBA, the minister made the statement on the sidelines of the First Global Reunion and Annual General Meeting of the Federal Government Girls’ College, Bida Old Girls Association in Abuja on October 15, 2022.

It is asking the court to rule that the Minister’s remark was “unconstitutional, careless, reckless, disparaging, a call to disobey the court’s judgment, and thus contemptuous of the Federal High Court of Nigeria.”

It further wants the court to  “Declare  that by virtue of the aforesaid statement of the defendant referring to the judgment of court as ‘kangaroo’, the defendant is thereby unfit to hold or continue to hold the office of the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development of the Federal Government of Nigeria, or any public office of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

NBA also requests that the court order the defendant to publish a personally signed apology letter to Nigerians and the Judiciary on a full page of two national dailies; and an order of perpetual injunction barring the defendant from holding any public office in Nigeria as a result of her ignoble conduct unless she purges herself of the ignoble conduct by publishing a written apology that must be published in each of the dailies.”

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