THE President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Maikyau, has called on legal practitioners to work towards an improvement of the democratic process in the country through an amendment of the present constitution and seek to provide for independent candidates.
“What you have in Section 2.2.1 of the constitution and with due respect to the freedoms of that constitution is that there is a fraud being committed on the people of this country. It is fraud in the sense that we don’t pay any attention to how we produce our candidates.
“You can’t contest an election unless on the platform of a political party and we all know what goes on in these political parties so that means we don’t get the best of us to emerge as candidates for us to choose at the general elections. So whatever the primaries produce is what we are limited to in terms of our choices.”
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was represented at the event by the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, described the late renowned lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, as an uncompromising hero who led the battle against military and civilian dictators and spoke for the oppressed in the society.All rights reserved.
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