Exclusive: What a judge should do when approached by litigant to pervert justice

Second longest serving Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais has given a hint on what a serving judge should do when confronted by litigants or anybody at all with a request to influence judgment in their favour against the weight of evidence before the court.

Uwais, in an exclusive interview with Bar and Bench Watch also said that he expected justices of the Supreme Court who claimed politicians sought their assistance to pervert justice in certain appeals on election petitions to have withdrawn from the panels.

He said he was on all fours with the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed over his refusal to suspend arrested judges without petitions against them and investigation of same by the National Judicial Council (NJC).

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