judgements of ELECTION TRIBUNALs Agbaje: Judiciary won’t embrace illegality
The rulings of the Election Petition
Tribunals in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and other states in the last few
days is good for our democracy. The rulings will help our democracy and
the rule of law to develop. In other words, it is good for development
of our democracy and rule of law in this country.
The rulings also clearly show that those who have benefitted from illegality must be ready for the consequences in court now.
And those who have taken political thuggery to higher level must also be ready for the repercussion through the judicial sanctification of the electoral process. It will be wrong for anybody to say that the rulings of governorship election tribunals in some states are politically motivated. Anybody that says the tribunal rulings in some of the states are politically motivated should prove his argument.
As far as I am concerned, our judiciary have done their best.
You can’t rig election and expect the tribunal to pat you on the back, commend you or uphold election that is not properly conducted.
The tribunal should thrash you, so that next time when you see people rigging election, you will run away from such practice and you won’t be party to it. There is no way Nigerian judiciary would embrace the illegality that characterised elections in some states during the 2015 general elections.
You can only exhibit thuggery at the political ground, not in the law court. In law court, we deal with rule of law and facts. Criminality can only be perfected at the polling booths; you cannot bring them to court. That is what the tribunal is clearly telling the politicians. So, the tribunal rulings are good for our democracy
The rulings also clearly show that those who have benefitted from illegality must be ready for the consequences in court now.
And those who have taken political thuggery to higher level must also be ready for the repercussion through the judicial sanctification of the electoral process. It will be wrong for anybody to say that the rulings of governorship election tribunals in some states are politically motivated. Anybody that says the tribunal rulings in some of the states are politically motivated should prove his argument.
As far as I am concerned, our judiciary have done their best.
You can’t rig election and expect the tribunal to pat you on the back, commend you or uphold election that is not properly conducted.
The tribunal should thrash you, so that next time when you see people rigging election, you will run away from such practice and you won’t be party to it. There is no way Nigerian judiciary would embrace the illegality that characterised elections in some states during the 2015 general elections.
You can only exhibit thuggery at the political ground, not in the law court. In law court, we deal with rule of law and facts. Criminality can only be perfected at the polling booths; you cannot bring them to court. That is what the tribunal is clearly telling the politicians. So, the tribunal rulings are good for our democracy
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