The emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has ended, TheCable can report.
The council has given Walter Onnoghen, the suspended chief justice of Nigeria, seven days to respond to a petition filed against him.
Onnoghen was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari, who said he was acting on an order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The CJN was accused of non-declaration of assets.
Ibrahim Muhammad, the acting CJN, has also been given seven days to respond to a petition against him over an alleged breach of NJC rules.
He was accused of making himself available to be sworn in as acting CJN without the approval of the NJC.
The body referred a petition written against Danladi Umar, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) chairman, to the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC).
The FJSC, his employer, will treat the petition and refer it to NJC for action is there is a substance to it.
NJC will now reconvene on February 11, 2019 to discuss further actions against the nation’s top two judicial officers.
The emergency meeting was presided over by Umaru Abdullahi, former president of the court of appeal, following the absence of both Onnoghen and Muhammad who are in the eye of the storm.
