The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has dragged Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, sooner than a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, praying the court docket to bar her from conserving any public place of work within the nation.

The NBA within the go well with, accused the Minister of inciting electorate to disobey the judgment of a court docket of competent jurisdiction.

It alleged that the minister had in a speech she made at a public serve as, described a Federal High Court resolution that sacked the one feminine governorship candidate within the nation, Aishatu Binani, as a “kangaroo judgment.”

It famous that the judgment, delivered on October 14, was once in a go well with towards the All Progressives Congress, APC, through a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

The Minister had whilst reacting to the judgment, reportedly, mentioned: “The ruling that sacked Aishatu Binani, the only female governorship candidate in the country is a kangaroo judgment that should be rejected by well-meaning Nigerians. The court is declaring that the party has no candidate. This is unacceptable. It is like a kangaroo judgment, but we will not give up.”

NBA informed the court docket that the minister made the commentary on October 15, 2022, on the sidelines of the First Global Reunion and Annual General Meeting of the Federal Government Girls’ College, Bida Old Girls Association in Abuja.

It is praying the court docket to claim that the remark through the Minister “is unconstitutional, careless, reckless, disparaging, a call to disobey the judgment of court and therefore, contemptuous of the Federal High Court of Nigeria.”