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Atanda Fatayi-Williams

November 23, 2025

On whose mandate do judges stand?

The question he raised is simple: On whose mandate do judges stand? The judges cannot duck the issue posed by the president’s symbolic choice of battleground.

Bola Tinubu at judges’ conference
September 10, 2023

Nigerian justices have been compromising election judgements for incumbent presidents since 1979

What seems clear is that, since 1979, judicial appointments and decision-making in election petitions have enjoyed a relationship underpinned by a whiff of implicit quid pro quo.

Bola Tinubu and Haruna Tsamani