Opinion: The Judiciary and the Morality of the Rule of Law, By Majeed Dahiru
Since the transition from military to civil democratic rule over twenty years ago in 1999, Nigeria’s constitutional democracy has suffered a stunted growth. The lofty promises of dividends of the -hard fought to attain- democracy in the form of improved welfare and security of lives and properties of citizens remains unfulfilled.
Consequently, the political leadership of the Nigerian state at all levels do not necessary enjoy genuine democratic legitimacy as their authority is not conferred on them by people power. It is this stolen mandate that has arrested the socio-economic development of the Nigerian state and its people.
Characterized by massive rigging by stuffing of ballot boxes, under age voting, widespread violence, vote buying collectively aided and abetted by a thoroughly compromised electoral management body in concert with an equally compromised security agencies, the 2019 general elections were clearly manipulated to retain the ruling party in power against the popular wishes of the majority of Nigerians whose lives were made miserable by the current administration.
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