snailspeed: You are talking nonsense. The card reader is the biggest election rigging tool ever invented! The first and most effective way to rig an election in Nigeria today is to disenfranchise the voters through the card readers. That is one rigging you cannot even fight against. It was used perfectly in the last election. But guess what? Kano state had over two million votes cast but just about 400k voters were accredited by the card readers. So at the end, what Jega has done is that he has put the biggest rigging tool in the hands of inec and the executive. This will be used especially in the presidential elections. That is why Buhari has put his own person as the inec chairman.
kingphilip: Hmmmmm anytime I hear about the Supreme Court just one saying flashes my mind first and which is that made by justice Oputa the Supreme Court Justice.
"we are final not because we are infallible but we are infallible because we are final"
This is always bound to occur where someone or an institution becomes the highest authority without a checkmate from another body.
Though I'm not vast in legal matters to determine whether or not the cases they affirmed was right or wrong but I think the only way to avert any form of suspicion is to ensure that the body in charge of appointing supreme Court judges have credible individuals as members so as to appoint people of high credibility and avoid all these confusion arising from judgements been passed by the highest court in the land
In my opinion also, I think when and where judgments are upturned by higher courts or same courts, the former presiding judge/s should be tried so as to serve as deterrent to others who might want to tow the path of boycotting justice for whatever gain they might get
Long live the federal Republic of Nigeria Long live Ogun State at 40
that is not how jurisprudence works.
You can't punish a Trial Judge because you do not agree with his opinion.
If proof of bribery is substantiated, so be it. But to say because he felt party A was right, and you at the supreme court feel part B was right, so the juniour judge must be punished...what impetus.
The only reason the Supreme court is arm twisted into making this sort of decision is because of the mistake it made in the Rivers case.
In the Rivers case, they held that the use of Card reader was not a constitutional provision and so cannot be tendered as evidence as to whether or not an election truly held or didn't.
That opinion was enough to make all riggers win their case.
This opinion is against what the Tribunals and appeal Courts held, and although one may argue that truly the card reader was not mentioned in the electoral act or constitution, it is understandable that the act grants INEC the right to organise it's affairs. Hence, any method it deems fit for Identifying a registered voter should become Law and Binding.
When I heard that Fmr Gov. Peter Odili's wife is a Justice of the Supreme Court...I just LAUGHED