Legality, politics and justice ..
The dismissal of the 2019 Presidential election petition of by the Election Tribunal in Nigeria this week, together with the allegation in the UK that the British PM Boris Johnson lied to the Queen in getting her consent to prorogate Parliament, provide food for thought today.
Of all the five grounds of appeal, by the PDP dismissed by the Election tribunal it is the educational qualification that I found most interesting. How it got to be an issue to disqualify this particular candidate on this ground is simply unbelievable. It happened before when legal luminary GOK Ajayi brought up the issue of educational qualification of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the presidential election he won at the time.
In the UK the rule of law is facing a huge test over Brexit that is bound to task Britain’s monarchical democracy that has hitherto served it so brilliantly in providing political stability. On occasions like this one can recall a statement on the beauty of the role of British monarch that says –‘ with the Queen in Buckingham Palace every Briton sleeps well in his bed. ‘This statement puts absolute trust of the British in their monarchy as a bastion of stability and security.
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