OPINION BY OGAGA IFOWODO: Would-be VP Baba-Ahmed says the constitution is already interpreted for absurdity! | TheCable
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed would recoil from his own performance. That he would be embarrassed by the realisation that the species of argument he displayed in his effort to persuade President Muhammadu Buhari not to handover to President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the 29th of May, and to dissuade the learned justices of the Supreme Court from interpreting the constitution at his and his principal’s Labour Party suit, fall well below what may be expected of a first-year student of rhetoric.
I watched with utter disbelief as Baba-Ahmed spoke in apocalyptic terms on national television, claiming that if Tinubu, elected by the majority of the people, were to be sworn-in as president, that would be “as good as swearing-in the Nigerian Army” and that “this democracy is going to end on the 29of May, 2023.” The reason for this unfounded claim? That it would amount to swearing-in “people that have not satisfied the requirement” . I was not alone in my disbelief.
Yet, the only person showing utter disregard, indeed, contempt, for democracy is Baba-Ahmed himself, staking everything on the three-letter word “and” in Section 134 and of the constitution: “A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, . . .
And still on the intention of parliament — in this case, the framers of the 1999 constitution — Justice Andrews Obaseki restated the necessity of departing from the literal rule forty-three years ago in thecase earlier mentioned as follows: “The rule of construction of Acts of Parliament is that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act.
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