Presidential Election Tribunal Judgment - My Take Away!
Presidential Election Tribunal Judgment - My Take Away!
Asking a Tribunal or Court to nullify a Presidential Election in Nigeria is like asking a smoke fish to#PEPTJudgement
Those advising Official Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nigeria and Atiku Abubakar to proceed to the Supreme Court to prove his case are either deliberately mischievous, wicked & greedy and or egocentric in their views. At best, what they can achieve is a contribution to our constitutional development, not a nullity of #PresidentialElectionTribunalJudgment that is if former Vice President Atiku Abubakar actually won the Election in the first place. The truth however is, he did not win based on my own amateur analysis. I know my many of my friends who voted for President Muhammad Buhari not because they like his style of governance but because they thought he was better a candidate than Atiku, that is putting bandwagon effects asides.
Many things are designed in this country to fail including the Justice system. The lack of Independence of judiciary is one of such. While it's the practice for the Nigeria Judicial Council to appoint number one Judge in the Country, the truth, in reality, is that the ultimate appointment is done by the President subject to confirmation of the Nigeria Senate. The appointment and lack of separation of the Office of Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation further erode the so called the Independence of the Judiciary. The People Democratic Party benefited from this anomaly, so they have no reason to cry woes if the All Progressives Congress reap from same status quo.
Besides, the poor defense of the petition by the plaintiff team make this case a mockery and a mere academic exercise. Not only is evidence tendered shallow, but the witnesses are also, in fact, contradictory in postulation and submission. Maybe when we accept the French Justice System, where the defendant is guilty unless proving otherwise, our courts may begin to annul a Presidential Election. Until then, candidates and parties challenging Presidential Election Results are only doing so to console themselves from apparent unchangeable defeats.
As a student of history and politics, I read of 2/3 of 19 States to be 12 in the famous September 26, 1979 court judgment of 1979 is still fresh in our memory. How about the 2007 Presidential Election judgment at the Supreme Court when the beneficiary of the Election openly confessed, the Election was rigged to favour him?
My advice to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and looming supporters is to congratulate the winner of the Election and move on, going to the Supreme Court is a mere wastage of time and resources. And to all citizens who are disenchanted but who are never fans of the two leading candidates, the time between now and 2023 is for sober reflection, political sensitization, regrouping and alignment; otherwise, the same fate that befell you in 2019 will still befell you in 2023 if nothing concrete is done.
Finally, let me congratulate the President for his second round of victory; even though, I'm one of the people who believe that the President can and should do better than we are currently witnessing.
God bless Nigeria! God bless Africa!!
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