the extent of its inconsistency with Section 290(1) of the Constitution, is void. I hereby allow this appeal. Section 396(7) of the ACJA, 2015 is, in my firm view, an unnecessarily gratuitous legislative interference with, intrusion into or an outright usurpation of the appointing powers of the Executive arm consigned specifically to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the Constitution in Sections 250(1) and 238(2) thereof. The “FIAT/permission” issued on 2nd July, 2018, by the President, Court of Appeal to the Honourable, Justice M. B. Idris, JCA to proceed to the Federal High Court, Lagos and conclude the part-heard criminal matter: FHC/ABJ/CR/56/07-, notwithstanding the fact that the Honourable, Justice M. B. Idris, JCA, upon his elevation to the Court of Appeal had ceased, not only to be a 36