Former Minister of Women Affairs And Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, OFR, KSG, has withdrawn her Appeal against the judgment secured by NBA over her referring to a Court Judgement as “Kangaroo Judgment” after the judgment in Suit No. FHC/YL/12/2022 between Mallam Nuhu Ribadu v. All Progressives Congress (APC) & 2 Ors delivered on 14 October, 2022.
The Registered Trustee of NBA on December 14, 2022, via Originating Summons, prayed the Court to declare Pauline Tallen Unfit to hold public office, amongst other relieves.
In Suit No: CV/816/2016, an Abuja High Court declared that the said statement of Tallen was unconstitutional, careless, reckless, disparaging, a call to disobey the judgment of the court and therefore contemptuous of the Federal High Court of Nigeria.
The Court also granted among other reliefs an injunction restraining the ex-minister from holding any public office in Nigeria, unless she purges herself of the conduct by publishing a personally signed apology letter to Nigerians and the Judiciary on a full page of two national 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.
Dissatisfied with the judgment, Dame Pauline Tallen approached the Court of Appeal.
She has complied with the Judgment by apologising to the Judiciary and Nigerians as ordered by the FCT High Court. This she did by causing the apology to be published in national newspapers across the federation.
An officer of the NBA, who pleaded not to be mentioned, said that this is a victory for NBA.
That it further shows that the proper party to sue in the best interest of public litigation, is the Registered Trustee of NBA and not a section or branch of NBA.
