Justice Isa Ayo Salami (retd) was the President of the Court of Appeal. In a paper delivered at the 2015 annual lecture of the Nigerian National Merit Award, titled: ' Corruption Eradication and the Nigerian Ethical Revolution' , Salami spoke about his controversial retirement from the Bench under Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, saying the incumbent CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, played a role in the episode.