Nigeria’s National Industrial Court, sitting at Abuja, on Monday ordered the service of an interim order and hearing notice on the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar.
The order follows the suit seeking to restrain the tribunal from prosecuting the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.
At the hearing, counsel to the claimant, James Igwe SAN, informed the court that originating processes and interim order had been served on all parties except the Tribunal Chairman and the Senate President.
Igwe said it was the secretary to the tribunal chairman that received the document and not the chairman personally.
He, however, said the failure to serve the Senate President was an oversight that would be corrected immediately.
The judge, Justice Sanusi Kado, ordered that the processes and interim order be served on the tribunal chairman through substituted means by placing same on the wall of the tribunal office, stressing that hearing notices should be served on all parties.
Kado also gave an order that the interim order made on January 14 restraining the defendants from further proceeding with the trial against the CJN should continue to subsist.
The judge adjourned the matter till January 30 for hearing of motion on notice of the interlocutory injunction in the substantive suit.
The CJN, Justice Onnoghen, is facing a six-count charge before the CCT over an alleged non-declaration of assets.