The probe panel set up by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate allegations of corruption against the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Ayo Salami, has said it established evidence of conviviality between Justice Salami and some chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
THISDAY gathered that after going through the report of the panel headed by Justice Umaru Abdullahi, which was presented and discussed at the council’s meeting Wednesday, the members agreed that Salami’s allegation that the CJN attempted to influence the election petition appeal in the Sokoto matter was “baseless”.

Salami had claimed that Katsina-Alu asked him to manipulate the course of justice in the Sokoto State governorship election appeal.

In a suit seeking to stop his promotion to the Supreme Court, Salami had deposed on oath that Katsina-Alu asked him to compromise the appeal panel in giving judgment in favour of the incumbent governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Investigations also showed that the report, however, cleared Salami and other justices of the Court of Appeal on the allegations that the members of the governorship appeal panels in Osun and Ekiti States were financially induced to give judgment in favour of ACN.
The panel was said to have concluded that there was no evidence of financial inducement in the outcome of the two appeals.
But on the controversial call-logs, the panel was said to have recommended that they (call logs) should be further investigated by relevant security agencies to determine their relevance to the allegations against the jurists.
The council, according to an insider, adopted the report Wednesday, though its meeting continues Thursday.
NJC's spokesman, Mr. Soji Oye, was not available to confirm some of the information received from sources at the council's meeting.
But former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), who is also a member of the NJC, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), said no decision had been taken on the report.

He said: "As a member of council, the NJC is looking into the matter. Nothing is concluded yet."

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