The court is, more worrisomely, grappling with controversies buffeting some of its judgements, particularly regarding political and election matters. Nigeria is a highly litigious society.
Apart from some of its judgements that have become controversial, and are being lampooned in many corners of the country, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is also plagued with shortage of justices. The apex court is supposed to have a mandatory 21 justices. Instead, it now has 13. The implication is that jurists are overworked, and who knows, maybe also over-stressed, with a consequential effect on their health. At least they are complaining.
But staff strength is the least of the headaches afflicting the apex court today. Election results, even when polling is unimpeachable, are often disputed. The result is that many cases swarm the courts, right up to the apex court. Losers tend to excoriate the courts, and winners tend to rhapsodise them. In the midst of such fiery critical storms, the courts, and more crucially the Supreme Court, have appeared to make itself vulnerable.
Hear the unidentified INEC man: “The result of the Imo election is on our website. It is in the public domain. We have not altered what we have on our site to reflect the judgment of the apex court because we insist that the results the APC candidate presented were strange to us.
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