in favour of the Plaintiff and the defendant being dissatisfied with the decision appealed to the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division. 8. The Applicant further averred that while the matter was pending at the Court of Appeal, the then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory without regard to rule of law divided the subject matter into 3 plots and allocated them to other persons including the Defendant judgment debtor. The Appeal Court affirmed the judgment of the Trial Court on the 19th day of January, 2011, recognising the Plaintiff in that matter as the legitimate owner of plot 505 which was divided by the Honourable Minister. 9. However, on the 18th of April, 2011, one U.L.O Consultants Limited filed Suit No FCT/HC/CV/4594/11 and joined the Plaintiff/Judgement Creditor in the original suit as Defendant claiming ownership of Plot No 1953 which is part of Plot 505 which the Minister divided and allocated. In the interim, the Supreme Court struck out a motion for stay of execution of the judgment of the Appeal Court affirming the Plaintiff in the original matter as the legitimate owner based on which a warrant of possession was issued. 10. The Applicant further submitted that said the U.L.O Consultants Limited and HATLAB Ice Cream- one of the parties allocated part of the divided disputed land, having failed in their bids up to the Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the Trial Court, wrote a petition against the Applicant to the National Judicial Council, (NJC) dated 9th February, 2017 and same was referred to the Applicant for comments. 11. The Applicant continued that he was invited by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to appear before an investigation committee where he made his presentation. That the Investigation Committee despite the overwhelming evidence of abuse of Court processes by the Petitioners, having not properly evaluated the evidence reached an unfair and unjust conclusion and recommended that the Applicant be issued a warning letter, which was announced on television and it occupied all the media space; print, electronic and the internet. Subsequently on the 26th of March, 2018 the Applicant received a warning letter from the NJC through the Hon. Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory while placing him on its watch list for 9 months. 12. The Applicant asserted that he has never in his 36 years of service been found wanting in the discharge of his duties thus the conduct of the NJC amounts to victimisation which exposed him to needless public ridicule. 4

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