Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, Nigeria’s interim Chief Justice, is now being screened by the Senate.
Senator Ibrahim Gobir, the Senate leader, made the motion to screen at the 11:35 a.m. plenary.
The screening procedure had been requested to be moved up from where it was posted on the order paper by Senate President Ahmad Lawan.
Gobir moved that the Senate suspend its applicable norms and use the Committee of the Whole to perform the screening and allow the acting CJN Ariwoola and his entourage access to the chambers.
The acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ariwoola, all Justices of the Supreme Court, President of the Court of Appeal, President of the Federal High Court, President of the National Industrial Court and Secretary of the National Judicial Council, then entered and took their places.
Senator Babajide Omoworare, Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, served as the delegation’s leader.
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