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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, asked the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Abdullahi as substantive Chief Judge of the High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.<\/p>\n

The request was contained in a statement issued and made available to newsmen by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the nominated Chief Judge had been acting in that capacity prior to the nomination.<\/p>\n

Adesina said the president requested Section 256 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).<\/p>\n

President Buhari made the request in a letter dated April 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

He urged the Senate to do the confirmation, \u201cin the usual expeditious manner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, asked the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Abdullahi as substantive Chief Judge of the High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The request was contained in a statement issued and made available to newsmen by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,3701,3700,254,53],"class_list":["post-40309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-fct-chief-judge","tag-justice-abdullahi","tag-nigeria","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"\nBuhari asks Senate to confirm Justice Abdullahi as FCT Chief Judge - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, asked the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Abdullahi as substantive Chief Judge ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari asks Senate to confirm Justice Abdullahi as FCT Chief Judge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, asked the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Abdullahi as substantive Chief Judge ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-02T17:10:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-60673f276560a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari asks Senate to confirm Justice Abdullahi as FCT Chief Judge\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-02T17:10:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\"},\"wordCount\":126,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-60673f276560a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"FCT Chief judge\",\"Justice Abdullahi\",\"Nigeria\",\"senate\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asks-senate-to-confirm-justice-abdullahi-as-fct-chief-judge\",\"name\":\"Buhari asks Senate to confirm Justice Abdullahi as FCT Chief Judge - 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