A Federal Capital Territory High Court has declared the comment by a former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, against a court judgment as unconstitutional, reckless, and disparaging. A Federal High Court in Yola had nullified the candidature of Aishatu Binani as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state in a suit filed by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, challenging her emergence. Delivering judgment on the matter on Monday, the court held that her comment was contemptuous. Lawal said the court ordered that she risked being barred from holding any public office in the country if she disobeyed. Consequently, the court declared that the said statement of Dame Pauline Tallen (the defendant) was unconstitutional, careless, reckless, disparaging, a call to disobey the judgment of the court, and therefore contemptuous of the Federal High Court of Nigeria.

Source: Punch December 18, 2023 17:21 UTC