OPINION BY RAYMOND NKANNEBE: The judiciary and 2023 general election | TheCable
One of the unintended consequences of the zero-sum nature of Nigeria’s politics and the historical electoral heist that has characterized electioneering in Nigeria is the foray of the judiciary into the murky waters of politics. But perhaps it is meet to point out here that this phenomenon is not peculiar to Nigeria.
Incidentally, the Nigerian political clock has had its full orbit, and we are again at the cusp of another general election. The question is, what does this mean for the judiciary?In the interval between the last general election and the imminent 2023 polls, the Electoral Act – a major legislation at the heart of Nigeria’s electoral jurisprudence has been amended with some radical innovations some of which have not received juridical introspection.
In his remarks at the engagement, the CJN took the opportunity to admonish the judicial officers on the need to undertake the assignment with a great sense of responsibility and fidelity to their judicial oath of neutrality and fairness. “Perhaps in recognition of the critical role court registrars and Secretariat of election petition tribunals play in the justice-delivery value chain, the workshop organized yesterday, by the President of the Court of Appeal - the Hon.
Separately, the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee took up a complaint against the SAN for violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct in the legal profession. On May 21, 2015, the LPDC found him guilty of multiple violations of the RPC and disbarred him. He would later regain his Silk after an appeal at the Supreme Court which quashed the findings of the LPDC on a rather technical ground as the Court has become accustomed. The above instance, is one, out of many other cases.
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