[OPINION]: Re-trial of Kalu: Not worth a single minute
The Nigerian justice system is known for throwing up a surprise of a gargantuan, earth-shaking, epoch-making magnitude every now and then. One was the Supreme Court judgement which handed victory to the National Party of Nigeria in 1979, in the election petitions appeal: Chief Obafemi Awolowo vs Alhaji Shehu Shagari over whether the latter could be deemed duly elected despite not having satisfied the stipulated provision of wins in two-thirds of the then 19 states comprising the federation.
As it happens, for once, the higher courts could not fault the evidence adduced by the prosecution so, the search for a different exit route for “distinguished” Senator Kalu was urgently needed.The Supreme Court did not disappoint. And, like a jolt from a thunderbolt, it found one.
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