OPINION BY CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU: The reign of pillow talk law | TheCable
Our politicians are no longer content with hiring Senior Advocates of Nigeria , they also have their own judgesWhen he announced himself to the world on 1 January 1984 as military Head of State and leader of the military coup that had just overthrown Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Nigeria’s then-elected president, Muhammadu Buhari, a major-general, cited as the reason for the coup the fact that the politicians had chosen to “circumvent most of the checks and balances in the constitution”, complaining...
Looking back at judicial roles in the 2003 and 2007 elections, Obi Nwabueze, Nigeria’s best-known professor of public law and currently the country’s most senior living Senior Advocate of Nigeria , accused the Supreme Court of playing a “discreditable part” in manufacturing a jurisprudence of electoral impunity, lamenting the failure by the “Court to appreciate that the question of who should rule Nigeria is not one to be decided by a perverse and narrow legalism, by the technicalities of the...
In hindsight, the situation reported by the Babalakin Commission in 1986 now reads very much like choir practice. Even then, standards existed. When he was nominated to sit on the Supreme Court panel in the Anambra State governorship election petition in 1983, Anthony Aniagolu, then a Justice of the Supreme Court, recused himself. He knew one of the parties in the case too well.
The import of Adamu Bulkachuwa’s diction and words was clear. Premium Times remarked in response that “compromise of court decisions is generally believed to be a recurrent happening in Nigeria, but confession to it by actors is rare”.
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