Justice Olukayode Ariwoola is expected to take over from Justice Tanko Muhammad as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).
It would be recalled that Justice Muhammad, was last week accused of corruption and professional misconduct by 14 other Justices of the apex court.
Justice Muhammad was said to have resigned on Sunday, but the news of his resignation became public on Monday morning.
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- Here are a few things you may like to know about the new acting CJN
- He is 67 years old.
- Justice Ariwoola hails from Iseyin, in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo.
- He studied law and graduated from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile Ife, Osun in 1980.
- He was called to the Nigeria bar and got enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a Solicitor and Advocate in July 1981.
- Prior to becoming a Justice of the Supreme Court, Ariwoola was appointed a judge of the Oyo State High Court in 1992 and later made a Justice of the Court of Appeal in November 2005.
- On November 22, 2011, he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice.
- Currently, he is a Member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the Nigerian Body of Benchers.
- He was one of the seven justices of the Supreme Court that decided the 2019 presidential election petition that affirmed the election of Buhari as President for a second term.
- Justice Ariwoola is married with children.
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