Court Bans Former Minister, Pauline Tallen from Holding Public Office for Disparaging Judiciary

An Abuja High Court has restrained a former Women Affairs and Social Development Minister, Miss Pauline Tallen, from holding public office in Nigeria.

She was restrained, following her disparaging remark against the judiciary, over the judgement of a federal high court in Yola on October 14,2022 in the suit filed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu over the outcome of the Adamawa state APC Governorship Primaries.

Tallen, then a minister in the Buhari administration, described the decision of the court as a kangaroo judgment which must be rejected by all well-meaning Nigerians.

Publicity secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Akorede Lawal in a statement on Monday, said the incorporated trustees of the association filed a petition against her when she refused to apologize over the comment.

Justice O. Kekemeke in his judgement on Monday, gave Tallen an option of tendering an apology in two national dailies within 30 days of the judgement date.

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urt also granted among other reliefs an injunction restraining Dame Pauline Tallen (the Defendant) from holding any public office in Nigeria, unless she purges herself of the ignoble conduct by publishing a personally signed apology letter to Nigerians and the Judiciary on a full page of the Punch and Guardian Newspapers.

The Court ordered that the injunction restraining the Defendant from holding any public office in Nigeria shall become perpetual if she fails to abide by the order directing her to publish an apology letter within 30 days, the statement said.