Justice Mabel Segun-Bello, a Federal High Court judge, has shared recipe to get a federal judge job in Nigeria.
Speaking on Saturday in Abuja at the 2024 clarity conference, themed: “The constellation; gathering of stars, by stars and for stars,” Justice Segun-Bello said becoming a Nigerian federal judge required having someone to put in words for you in the presidency, or you are in the good book of a political party.
She said this in her address to the participants, most of whom are young people.
According to her, “Your condition may be that you come from a poverty-stricken background. It is powerful, but you have a will to say you won’t be remain that way.
“If I tell you the story of where I come from, two things will happen to you; you will either say I am lying or you will start crying. Note that I am not a state Judge, I am a federal Judge.
“To become a federal judge, you are either backed by the presidency or helped by a political party. I had none.
“That tells you principles are universal in application. If applied, anything is possible.”
In her own remarks, Convener of the conference, Atuzie Favour Tuzzi, said the conference was organized to show young people how to implement their ideas, saying, “We did the clarity conference to basically take youths from ideation to implementation. Most people struggle and feel they are not good enough because of the exposure they have had. That is, their early environment, what they saw their peers doing in school.
“This conference aims to address all that.”
