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"If I ask you to give the name of one person who supported the northern candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari it will be Tinubu". Through the managing director of Kano road traffic agency Dr Baffa Babba Dan'agu ndi, who represented the governor at an inauguration of an office for northern youth professionals for Tinubu (an organization that supports Tinubu presidential ambition) in Kano on Monday. "It is time for us to show whether we are true sons of our parents or not. This is the time and we are with Bola Ahmed Tinubu ". Ganduje prayed to the conscience of the north, but also voiced his personal support for Tinubu. "His Excellency Dr Abdillahi Ganduje is part and parcel of this struggle, so we're with Bola Ahmed Tinubu" Ganduje knowing the massive support the south west gave to Buhari, felt the north should repay the kind gesture. "It was Bola Ahmed Tinubu who persistently stood firm and ensured that the people of the south west supported Muhammadu Buhari, from the APC primary up to the presidential election where he was victorious". Whatever reason Ganduje has for supporting Tinubu, Ganduje is nonetheless aware that the office of the president of the Federal republic of Nigeria is an office that decides the lives of citizens of the largest black nation . And none of the merits of such an office is 'anything you do me I go do you'. We are yet to see reactions to this call, but nonetheless Ganduje is aware that if he is to show support for Tinubu, it should be by actions. What better way to start by fixing up the crisis in the Kano chapter of the APC. If he can't get the numbers behind him then he is just a supporter by mouth and such support will do Tinubu Little good in the next APC convention in March
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kidap: A lot has been said about the forthcoming 2023 Presidential election. A lot of aspirants have sprang up, some of which have thrown their hats into the ring already, the latest on the list is former Imo State Governor and currently serving Imo West Senator, Senator Rochas Owelle Okorocha.
The good thing about Rochas Okorocha declaring for President is the fact that it shows that the Presidency of Nigeria is getting much closer to the Southeast region of Nigeria than can ever be imagined.
This once one can say that the Southeasterners are indeed beginning to walk the talk of vying for the number one office in Nigeria which is the office of the President of Nigeria.
Rochas declaring is doubtless a big boost to the Southeast Presidency dream. This is because of all the aspirants from Southeast that are being rumoured to be vying for the office of President of Nigeria ahead of the 2023 polls, one bridge-builder among them is Rochas Okorocha.
A Rochas Okorocha Presidency will expectedly be a Nigerian Presidency than a regional one. This is in the light of the regional clamours that are rather threatening the unity of Nigeria than fostering it.
Based on the above, Rochas Okorocha declaring for 2023 Presidency is a welcome development and a big boost even to the choice pool of aspirants from which Nigerians will eventually select a President, come 2023.
Senate passes bill to establish Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau Sodiq Oyeleke 15 February 2022 Kindly share this story: Floor of the Senate Nigerian Senate
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (Establishment) Bill, 2021.
The passage of the bill was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Committee on Aviation.
The chamber, midway through consideration of the Committee’s report on the bill last week, stepped it down due to a “mix-up” observed by the lawmakers during plenary.
However, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West), in his presentation on Tuesday, said the bill seeks to provide an effective and institutional framework for the prevention, regulation and administration of safety investigation of transportation occurrences in Nigeria, and anywhere Nigerian interest is involved or the transportation vehicle is a Nigerian carrier.
“Also, the purpose of the bill is to enable investigative activities and promote safety through the conduct of transparent, independent and objective investigations in all cases of accidents involving any of the current mode of transport in the country”, Adeyemi said.
Read Also Constitution amendment: APC plans screening of ministerial nominees, others Lawan lauds Sanwo-Olu’s delivery to citizens Bwacha gets Senate committee chairmanship days after defection He noted that the bill’s passage and assent into law would, amongst others, facilitate quick investigation of accidents, create a much safer environment and reduce death rates across the country.
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This comes a few weeks after the ‘welu welu’ master publicly confessed to cheating on his wife during his last music tour to the US. However, after the scandal he recently declared that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
According to him, he walks in the spirit, therefore he will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
“There is no condemnation for me I am in Christ Jesus. I am controlled not by the flesh but by the spirit of God that lives in me. The spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in me no one can condemn me cos Christ who died and was raised to life is at the right hand of God interceding for me.” He wrote in part.
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LEGAL, ELECTORAL PROCESSES MUST ENHANCE DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, OSINBAJO SAYS AT LAW TEACHERS CONFERENCE
SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 53RD CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS THEMED: “LAW, DEMOCRACY AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.” AT BAYERO UNIVERSITY KANO (BUK) ON THE 8TH OF FEBRUARY, 2022
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Let me begin by thanking the Executive of our Association for the kind invitation to join you at this 53rd law teachers conference. A Law Teachers’ Conference is always a homecoming for me. I started teaching at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos in November 1981, and for many years attending the Law Teachers’ Conference was always special.
First, because it was the only Conference our university agreed to pay for us to attend, and that was a big deal since my salary was N620 a month. So, I am pleased to be here.
I am not here alone; I have here with me two law lecturers who now work with me: Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, the Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing Business who used to teach Law of Contract, Commercial Law and International Economic Law at the University of Lagos and Dr. Balkisu Saidu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Legal, Research & Compliance Matters, who was Associate Professor of Law at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto where she taught Jurisprudence, Nigerian Legal System and Islamic Family Law. Though not here with me today, my Chief of Staff, who is the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Rahman Ade Ipaye, is also a former law teacher.
Your Excellencies, friends and colleagues, the place of the Law Teachers’ Conference is crucial, let me paraphrase parts of my comments at the 50th Anniversary Law Teachers’ Conference in 2018 : “because we, law teachers are the purveyors, custodians and creators of the underlying concepts and foundational premises of legal thought, and the thinkers for our system of law and justice and the profession, our conference has always been our forum for the free and yet deep interrogation of the fundamental ideas and principles that hold society together, the trajectory of the rule of law, law and order, democratic practice, and their current interpretations and efficacy. So, our conference is a time to step back and reflect, in order to come back to the problems with boldness and innovation.”
The theme for this conference – “Law, Democracy and the Electoral Process” – is entirely appropriate and not just because our national elections are imminent. As you would have noticed, democracy has come under attack in our subregion and on our continent in recent times.
Since 2017, there have been 12 military coups in Africa and half of them have occurred since 2020. Last month, the democratically elected government of Burkina Faso was overthrown, earlier Mali and Guinea, while only last week, there was an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau, that was thankfully repelled.
The recent spate of extra-constitutional disruptions of democratic governance in our region lends an added poignancy and urgency to our reflection on law, democracy and the electoral process.
It is now 22 years since we put away the yoke of dictatorship and took up the reins of democracy. A generation of Nigerians have come of age that have known only civil rule and assume as of right, the power to choose their leaders. This is also the longest stretch of democratic governance in our history.
We have witnessed a series of peaceful transitions of power. This is a huge credit to the democratic sensibilities of our people. Along the way, we are learning valuable lessons that can only make us better practitioners of liberty. We may be in the 22nd unbroken year as a democracy but in the grand scheme of things, our country is still a young democracy. Many of our institutions are still in their infancy and we must carefully guide them into maturity. We recognize that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
As one of the oldest democracies in a region that has long been plagued by autocratic and extraconstitutional regimes, democracy itself has now become part of our national exceptionalism. Our gallant armed forces are totally subordinated to civilian command authority and are fully committed to defending our constitutional order against internal and external threats. We have a relatively strong civil society that continues to push for greater accountability and the deepening of democratic practices.
In keeping with our foreign policy tradition, ours has been a clear and strident voice for the promotion of democracy on the continent and have been resolute in condemning extraconstitutional seizures of power.
Historically, we have worked to restore and preserve democracy in places such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. At the same time, the events now happening beyond our borders impose a burden on us to exemplify the highest manifestation of democracy at home so that we can more credibly promote it abroad.
In 2015, we made history when an opposition party defeated the ruling party in a national election and a peaceful transition of power followed. In so doing, we vaulted over a hurdle that we have fallen at in previous attempts at democratic governance. Since then, we have seen more and more elections at the subnational level feature transitions between parties. Certainly, we have witnessed electoral contests in which mere membership of the ruling party is not a guarantee of victory. These are signs of our growth as a democracy. There remains, of course, much room for improvement.
But the overarching or foundational issue is democracy. The notion of the government of the people by the people for the people, and its critical implications. Law and the electoral process must work for the achievement of the most democratic outcomes. Legal or electoral processes must enhance not defeat democracy.
Central to democracy is the will of the electorate demonstrated by voting for candidates of their choice. That right is so central to democracy that it must be protected by electoral laws and judicial interpretation in electoral cases. This means that electoral justice must not be for the candidates alone. Indeed, the principal players, the electorate, must be front and centre of judicial reflection on how to determine electoral cases, the judiciary must be wary of substituting their will for the will of the electorate, they must seek every interpretation that leaves the people with the choice of who they prefer.
The decision of the Supreme Court in the case of APC v. Marafa (SC.377/2019), where the Supreme Court nullified the elections of all candidates of the party, who were resoundingly elected by the electorates in Zamfara State in the 2019 elections on the grounds that the APC’s primaries which produced the candidates that were voted for were invalid.
And, without recourse to the electorates, who had, in the polls rejected all the other candidates of the other political parties, the Supreme Court declared candidates of parties other than the APC as winners of the various offices that were contested for in the February 23 and March 16 general elections.
The court held that the APC votes, cast by the Zamfara State electorates to select their preferred candidates as Governor, Senators, members of the House of Representatives, members of State House of Assembly were all "wasted votes." Why? Because, according to the court, APC did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidates for any of the elections in the State.
So, here was a situation where the party that lost every seat from governorship down to House of Assembly was given all those seats by judicial pronouncement. For the voter, this decision must have been at best puzzling.
First, they had no idea that the candidates were disqualified before voting. Indeed, at least one court had declared the primaries valid and it was on that basis that INEC gave the go-ahead to the candidates to contest.
Second, rather than giving seats to those that the electorate had rejected, ordering a rerun would probably have been more acceptable and fairer to the voters. I agree with my brother A.B. Mahmood, SAN, that there is a real issue of whether the courts have not assumed a larger duty in election cases than was constitutionally intended. I am certain that these issues will benefit from the views of our colleagues in the course of this conference.
Nevertheless, I think it is a testament to our commitment to improving our electoral process that we have an Electoral Bill that is presently in the process of being passed. The Bill itself has been the subject of robust engagement between the government and civil society. And while some have expressed reservations about the time it is taking to enact the new law, we should remember that a truly inclusive democratic deliberative process often takes time. I am confident that the legislation that emerges will be one that reflects a broad consensus between all the stakeholders.
While INEC continues to improve its capacity to conduct credible elections particularly through the deployment of technology, we recognize that democracy is about much more than voting. It is also about constitutionalism, rule of law and respect for civil liberties. We must diligently work to uphold these principles.
Permit me to refer to Section 14 of our Constitution which proclaims, “The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a state based on democracy and social justice.” Democracy and social justice are inextricably linked. The insistence that our society must be governed by the rule of law and not the whim of man is the cornerstone of democracy. As law teachers and legal practitioners, we are custodians of this truth. However, democracy cannot endure without social justice.
The pursuit of justice lies at the heart of the quest for the good of society. This makes the legal profession one of the cardinal vocations upon which civilization rests. Indeed, the law is an instrument of pacific social engineering, the end of which is justice. When it is rooted in this postulate, it follows that the law and therefore democracy, are meant to serve beneficial social ends.
More broadly, our idea of social justice also refers to the social and economic rights of the people. These include the right to food, shelter, employment, education and a reasonable national minimum living wage, care for the elderly, pensions, unemployment benefits and welfare for the physically challenged. These bequests are in the 2nd Chapter of the Constitution as part of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy.
Without social justice, legal justice is ultimately unattainable. The degree to which citizens are in possession of their social and economic rights has a direct impact on the degree of their access to legal services and thence to justice. Our concern as teachers and practitioners of the law therefore must extend beyond the courtroom, beyond the precincts of our legal institutions to the social reality in which these structures exist.
The law is a social construct and makes sense only within a social context. To treat the law as something apart from society, or as a body of technical abstractions is to strip it of meaning. This also fosters alienation between the legal profession and the very people it is meant to serve. Approaching the law simply as an instrument for achieving legalistic justice is grossly inadequate in our circumstances.
We are in an age in which our society must grapple with issues of structural poverty, entrenched inequality, disparities in access to social and economic opportunities, fractured access to justice, and the occasionally abusive conduct of law enforcement institutions – all of which are creating profound radical discontent with the social order.
Notions such as the rule of law are meaningful only in a context in which the law is considered relatable by the public and is deemed consistent with universal aspirations towards an end state of social justice. A society in which an increasing number of people consider themselves alienated from legal institutions or perceive these legal institutions to be incapable of delivering justice for all cannot be stable and prosperous.
Section 17 of our Constitution asserts that “the independence, impartiality and integrity of courts of law, and easy accessibility thereto shall be secured and maintained.” It is significant that the framers of our Constitution enshrined access to justice along with social and economic rights in the Directive Principles and Objectives of State Policy. It indicates that they saw access to justice, the integrity of our justice system and socioeconomic rights as related imperatives.
There is a school of thought that holds that one of the unfinished tasks of our democratization project is to actualize the rights and imperatives enshrined in the Second Chapter of our Constitution. There are also those that promote a rigid distinction between fundamental human rights enshrined in Chapter 4 of our Constitution and the Social and Economic Rights in Chapter 2. In my view, there is truly no irreconcilable dichotomy between political and civil rights, & social and economic rights.
In terms of governance and public policy, the right to the dignity of the human person in Chapter 4 of our Constitution means that citizens are to be fed and sheltered, that they are listened to when they speak and are guaranteed liberty as long as they do not break the law and are entitled to a fair trial when they do. The right to human dignity is the wellspring of efforts to guarantee freedom of speech and the right to vote, welfare programmes that ensure that everyone has food and shelter, and judicial reforms that enable even the most disadvantaged citizens to enjoy equality before the law.
Consequently, the principle of the dignity of the human person implies that governments must be considerate, egalitarian and universal in the sense that they must serve everyone. This understanding has driven interventions such as the Social Investment Programmes which is the most ambitious welfare programme on the continent and our efforts to expand universal health insurance all aimed at ensuring that our most vulnerable citizens are not abandoned to the vicissitudes of fate.
I would say that the postulation of a rigid dichotomy between fundamental human rights and social and economic rights is a retrogressive perception of rights. The progressive vision to which I subscribe holds that poverty and underdevelopment pose a serious obstacle to the full realization of human rights. Indeed, the progressive vision holds that human rights in their fullest sense encompass both civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights.
Our progress as a democracy must therefore also be prosecuted in terms of the struggle to reduce the basic problems of ill-health, malnutrition, illiteracy, and famine which daily afflict our people. Where social and economic rights are unsecured, people are unable to fully maximize their civil and political rights. For instance, access to qualitative education enhances and enriches the freedoms of expression, thought and conscience. Conversely, pervasive illiteracy can nullify the freedom of the press. In the progressive vision, political rights and socio-economic rights are mutually reinforcing.
Why do these issues matter? Simple, the value proposition of democratic governance is that it delivers the fulfilment of the social contract between the state and citizens. Elections are a means to this end.
In practical terms, therefore, democracy means more than the right and opportunity to freely choose one’s leaders; it means accessible qualitative education to the unlettered, affordable healthcare to the sick, inclusion for the alienated, social mobility for the poor, justice for the wronged and security for the vulnerable. How effectively we deliver on these propositions will determine the growth and endurance of our democracy.
To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr. we must bend the arc of our democracy towards social justice.
As teachers and practitioners of the legal craft, we should not be afraid of tackling the big conceptual and philosophical questions around the meaning of democracy, but take the lead in shaping the conversations that drive policy and legislation around these issues and in so doing, preserve public confidence in our vocation and in our capacity as a people to self-correct and self-govern.
On this note, let me once more thank my colleagues for extending their kind invitation to me. It is now my singular privilege and pleasure to declare this conference open and I wish you a fruitful deliberation.
Thank you for listening.
Released by: Laolu Akande Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity Office of the Vice President 8th February 2022
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