Buhari Orders Northerners To Take Over Supreme Court

The Senate is set to confirm two Northerners as Supreme Court Justices, following the request by President Muhammadu Buhari, few days after the widely condemned Judicial coup.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, read the letter conveying the request, after the Senate returned from a closed-door session, on Tuesday.
The nominated Justices are: Sidi Bage, Nasarawa State, North-Central; and Paul Jauro, Taraba State, North-East.
Their nominations came amid a clampdown on allegedly corrupt Judges in the High, Appeal, and Supreme Courts, by the State Security Service, SSS.
In the letter read by Saraki, Buhari said his request followed Section 231 (2) of the Constitution of Nigeria, as amended.
The President, sought expeditious attention of the Senate, Saraki read.
Jauro, who was born on June 26, 1954, became Judge of the High Court, in 1998. Ten years afterwards, he was appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal.
Bage, born on June 22, 1956, became Federal High Court Judge, in 1992, before his appointment as a Justice of the Court of Appeal, in 2000.
The two Judges had been recommended for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court, by the National Judicial Council.
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