It’s crucial to recognise that citizens or civic groups have standing in election petitions in a representative or test capacity.
Nigerians are currently denied standing to participate in disputes involving the identity or determination of the person or party on whom they have conferred that mandate.
A judge who sits beyond the lawful judicial age is a judicial impostor.
While the country burns, President Bola Tinubu has curiously flown to Saint Lucia, a Caribbean territory of about 179,000 people known as a transit hub for cocaine shipments.
He had every opportunity to deploy his prodigious talents and considerable skills in the pursuit of personal fortune, and no one could have begrudged him.
Uwais was quietly uncompromising on judicial integrity.
The hubris of President Tinubu’s handling of the coup crisis in Nigeria was inexplicable.
The judicialisation of African politics increasingly represents a huge risk to the popular will as the basis of government.
The Constitution anointed the people as the electorate. Yet, winners and losers in Nigerian elections are decided by a judicial selectorate that does not feel beholden to anything.
The National Judicial Council seeks the benediction of judicial corruption into high virtues for which recidivist judges receive a year-long sabbatical.
