No election since the dawn of the fourth republic in 1999—except in 2015—has slid without litigation. And each has unfolded in
rainy morning during my second year as an undergrad, Dr Jibril Mohammed was introducing the theory of utility when he asked a young chap seated in the middle row, “Who conceptualised utility?” and he exclaimed, “P-Square,” without much thought.
After laughing it off, Dr Jibril introduced us to Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher, jurist and social reformer best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a philosophical theory that proposes that the best action is the one that maximizes overall happiness or “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
These attributes of the law confer a considerable amount of influence and power upon legal practitioners who must comb through mountains of evidence, interpret whole sections of the law and sometimes find loopholes in the intricacies of the law. So, that Wednesday, I sat in the Press Gallery of the State House alongside other journalists, watching the 12-hour session where the Presidential Election Petition Court decided who won the election.
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