The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop any move to appoint five new judges for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Mrs. Chidinma Hilary Udebuani, who filed the suit asked the court to stop any move by either President Goodluck Jonathan or the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, to appoint five new judges for the Federal Capital Territory, she prayed the court to invoke its powers and stop the planned elevation of the new judges, following alleged fraud in the appointment process which was allegedly skewed to favour specific states.

The litigant accused the Chief Judge of the FCT, Justice Ibrahim Bukar, in the alleged appointment fraud. He is been accused of not adhering to the federal character principle,
by listing people from certain parts of the country for appointment. Udebuani stressed her point saying that the law that established the FCT Judiciary, provided that it should have a composition of 37 judges excluding the Chief Judge, with the result that there shall be a judge from each state of the Federation and the FCT.

 She said “That a state like Kastina has always had four Judges until recently when one of them was elevated to the Court of Appeal, still leaving three judges to the credit of Kastina, while other states have no representation.”