In a Constitutional Case with a full bench of seven Justices, the Supreme Court of Nigeria was persuaded for the first time in Nigerian legal jurisprudence, to hold that a Judicial Officer who has seized to be one could appear for himself in person in a court of law rather than being represented by counsel and that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria did not place such a bar on a judicial officer who has seized to be one. The Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the decision of the lower Court that held that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria bars a person who has held judicial office from acting for himself in a court of law.
