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AGAIN, CJN ARIWOOLA LOBBIES FOR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW's NOMINATION TO FCT HIGH COURT BENCH

Chief Justice of Nigeria Olukayode Ariwoola is scheming to install his Daughter-in-law’ as a judge on the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, the country’s seat of power, according to Peoples Gazette report. It is the daughter-in-law. Kayode Ariwoola, Jnr’s wife. Oluwakemi Victoria Ariwoola who is married to Kayode Ariwoola, Jnr., is the latest beneficiary of an active determination of the nation’s most-senior jurist to en-root the court system with family members and loyalists before his mandatory retirement in August 2024.  Mr Ariwoola had successfully elevated his son, Kayode Ariwoola Jnr as a federal judge and younger brother Adebayo Ariwoola as the auditor of the National Judicial Council. His nephew Lateef Ganiyu was recently promoted to the appeal court, as well as other relatives now heading diverse positions across the judiciary bureaucracy, according to a recent observation by rights expert Chidi Odinkalu, who has been tracking nepotism as a growing issue in the ju