PUNCH
The Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Monday, gave a former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, 30 days to tender an apology to the judiciary for describing a court judgment as a “kangaroo judgment.”
The court said Tallen risked being barred from holding any public office in Nigeria again if she failed to tender a public apology to be published in The PUNCH and The Guardian newspapers.
The verdict was handed down in suit number CV/816/2016 filed against her by the Nigerian Bar Association.
According to a statement on Monday by the NBA spokesman, Akorede Lawal, the ex-minister criticised the court after the Federal High Court in Yola, on October 14, 2022, nullified the candidature of Aishatu Dahiru, alias Binani, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Adamawa State.
The suit against Binani was filed by Nuhu Ribadu, now the National Security Adviser.
Tallen was said to have described the court verdict in the case as “kangaroo judgment,” to the annoyance of the NBA, which dragged her before the court…
