He is the first and current Chief Judge of Jigawa State. He served as a judge in Kano State till August 27, 1991 when Jigawa was carved out of Kano by the then military administration of President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Only he and three other judges moved from Kano State to lay the foundation for the Jigawa State judiciary. Today, more legal practitioners have been appointed to the bench by the National Judicial Council (NJC).
Justice Abubakar who was a conferee at a Judicial Independence Workshop organised by National Centre for State Courts in Abuja recently, spoke with Vanguard's Law and Human Rights on his experience on the Bench. He regretted the slow pace of development in Jigawa State judiciary. According to him, when pressures were being mounted on relevant authorities for the creation of NJC, it was the contemplation of many that the Federal Government through the national supervisory body will apart from handling judicial officers' salaries and allowances, fund both capital and recurrent expenditures of all state judiciaries.
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