Salami Files Fresh Suit To Stop The Senate

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Suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami Friday filed a fresh suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to restrain the Senate from acting on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council suspending him from office as a judicial officer.

In the new suit in which the Senate President, the Clerk of the National Assembly, the National Assembly, the Attorney General of the Federation and the National Judicial Council were made parties, Salami is seeking an interlocutory injunction to stop the implementation of the NJC's recommendation.

Other defendants are the Deputy Chairman of the NJC, Justice Dahiru Musdapher and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.