NJC spokesman, Soji Oye, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, noting that the decision was taken following the Council’s 106th Meeting presided over by the outgoing CJN Justice Olukayode Ariwoola.

Justice Kekere-Ekun is the most senior in line to CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who bows out of office on Thursday, August 22, 2024, when he will attain the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Kekere-Ekun, will be the second female to occupy the office of the CJN, the first being Justice Aloma Mukhtar who was sworn on July 16, 2012.

Justice Ariwoola was appointed as the CJN on September 21, 2022 by former President Muhammadu Buhari.

The NJC also “recommend twenty-seven (27) candidates for appointment as Judges of States Courts and a candidate for appointment as Kadi of the Sharia Court of the FCT, Abuja to their various State Governors and Mr. President”, the statement added.