The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has won a suit filed against a former Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen.
In a statement, the NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Lawal, said the suit was filed over her comments in respect of a Federal High Court judgment in suit no FHC/YL/CS/12/2022.
According to Lawal, the NBA Incorporated Trustees on December 14, 2022, took out an originating summons against Dame Pauline Tallen, who at the time was Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, over her public comments made in respect of the judgment of the Federal High Court in Suit No. FHC/YL/12/2022 between Mallam Nuhu Ribadu v. All Progressives Congress (APC) & 2 Ors.
He said judgment was delivered in the matter on October 14, 2022.
“Dame Pauline Tallen had on October 15, 2022, described the court decision as “a kangaroo judgment that should be rejected by well-meaning Nigerians.”
“The aforesaid statement by the former minister was widely circulated in both social and print media, and it was particularly reported by most of the major newspapers in the country including the Punch and Guardian Newspapers.
“By a letter dated November 14, 2022, the NBA President, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN had written to the former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development demanding her to withdraw the said disparaging comments and tender an unreserved and public apology to the Court, failing which the NBA would institute an action against her as being unfit to continue to hold any public office in Nigeria.
“This letter was never responded to and the demands therein were not complied with, hence the institution of Suit No: CV/816/2016 before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.”
