The Justices of the Supreme Court will on Friday, October 27, 2023, reduce to 10 when eminent jurist, Justice Musa Dattijo, will bow out of the apex court at a valedictory session to mark his formal retirement.
Justice Dattijo clocked 70 years, being mandatory retirement age for justices of the Supreme Court.
A statement by the Supreme Court’s Director of Press and Information, Dr. Amanda Festus Akande, said the valedictory session, scheduled to hold at the Main Courtroom of the court by 10:00 a.m., would be presided over by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), OlukayodeAriwoola.
Akande told The Guardian that it was untrue that two justices of the apex court, alongside Dattijo, are withdrawing from the presidential election panel scheduled to commence hearing today on the suit by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
Dattijo, who clocked 70 years, being the mandatory retirement age for justices of the Supreme Court, hails from Chanchaga Local Council of Niger State and was born on October 27, 1953 in Minna.
He attended Native Primary School, Minna, from 1960 to 1966 for his First School Leaving Certificate. Between 1967 and 1971, attended Sheikh Sabbah College (now Sardauna Memorial Secondary School), Kaduna, from where he proceeded to AbdullahiBayero College, Kano, for a pre-degree programme, which aided his immediate admission into the Faculty of Law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he bagged a degree in Law in 1977.
Justice Dattijo was called to the Nigerian Bar on July 2, 1977 and got his first Degree in Law. He sought admission at Warwick University in 1982 for an LLM Degree, which he obtained in 1983.
He took the oath of office as Justice of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, July, 10, 2012.
