Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen on Tuesday made an appearance at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge his removal as CJN by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
In 2019, the CCT convicted Onnoghen in all the six-count charges of breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers brought against him by the Federal Government while in office as CJN.
The tribunal also stripped him of all offices earlier occupied among which were the chairman of the National Judicial Council and also the chairmanship of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.
The tribunal also ordered the forfeiture of his five bank accounts and the money in the accounts which Onnoghen did not declare in his asset declaration form submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), an agency of the Federal Government.
In his appeal, Onnoghen argued that all the allegations brought against him constituted no offence and should not have formed the basis for his conviction and removal from office.
He is also reported to be challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT and its refusal to be bound by the orders made by the Federal High Court and the National Industrial Court directing the tribunal to halt the trial.
