₦airaland Forum

Burob:
Wailing Wailers, everything dey pain una inside una hypocrisy.

Keep weeping.

Lumig:
PDP How many people are in that party that makes them to be reacting
A group of stranded and lonely individuals

AndroBlaze:
The same people complaining were the same people hailing the Supreme Court for dressing down the Presidency regarding pardons.

Let me advise people who do not understand basic Gvernment 101, if you think the Supreme Court is meant to act as opposition in a democracy, because una no fit gather yourselves together and oppose properly, you are in for long things.

To think this is coming from the same party that declared state of Emergency 3 or 4 times and sacked governors themselves, shameless people.

mikepal:
The same supreme court that declared him winner of a fraudulent election, his do you expect to win him there, Omo anything APC and supreme court just forget it you can't win them. Most especially Tinubu

Vision101:
You are talking like Kanu. Abusing the highest judges of the land. Read the PDP statement very well. It is very clear that their concern is mainly the possibility of exploitation. They didn't abuse the judges but stated that the limits of such power should be clearly stated either by express provision in the constitution or further clarification by the supreme Court. I totally agree with them on this.

They know that they have done it before. It's not about today and the occupant of the office. It's about the future.

You must learn to read well and pick understanding. Operate with an open heart. That's the essence of education and exposure. I must not hate everything you say or do whether right or wrong.

Vision101:
I have issues with the PDP but I support the tone of the release. While the judgment is useful but limitations and definitions must be clearly made as requested by the PDP. This is to avoid abuse in future. It's not about the one that passed but the future that we don't know.

Sermwell:
This is a bad precedent and you're not smart enough to know it! What if a northerner or South Easterner becomes president tomorrow and declare state of emergency in Lagos or any southwest states at will? I hope you celebrate too!!

Ofunaofu:
I don’t think they need to obtain the consent of anyone.
They only approached the Supreme Court to interpret the law and determine whether the President has the power to suspend democratically elected governors and members of a State House of Assembly.

However, from what I can deduce here and to the chagrin of everyone the Supreme Court supports the president action describing it as “extraordinary measure to restore peace and order.”

This is very dangerous

This implies that the President can instigate chaos and anarchy in a State he doesn't like the governor by empowering certain individuals, as Wike was empowered to instigate a crisis in Rivers State and then suspend a democratically elected governor under the guise of restoring peace and order through an 'extraordinary measure.'

Kukutente23:
You're thinking like Igboho
You need to understand the basic tenets of democracy before you start gassing
Democracy is built in checks and balances, separation of powers and limitations
The essence of the constitution itself is to place limitations and boundaries
A situation where a court is handing over limitless powers to the executive is not envisaged in a democracy
Secondly, you need to understand what a federation means. The federating units are the constituents that make up the Federation. To imply that the head of the Federation can sack any of the constituent's governance is to imply that the federating units owe their existence to the Federation instead of the other way round. A bigger issue is that this summarily shows that the SC does not believe in its own judgement or gave last week where it claimed that states are independent of the Federal govt and the LGs are also independent of the states. It just established an hierarchy of subservience between the states and the Federal. Most importantly, the idea of state police is dead with this declaration.

Vision101:
Nigeria as presently constituted is a flawed federation.

I agree and I have said it that there is need for clear limitations but like any other law there's need for provision for necessity .

Is the doctrine of necessity expressly in any of our statues. The answer is no. But it saved us from major constitutional crisis in the past.

Think through this scenario:
A state governor having major issues with the legislature. Everything has been primed to impeached him. Finally he and his deputy were impeached. The speaker took over and was impeached. The state chief judge took over and the legislature totally refused to cooperate with him. No budget approval etc. Infact there was no governance of any type. So much constitutional crisis.

What would a president do knowing very well that the country is a federation? Whatever action the president eventually took would it have been better to be preemptive and take it earlier or wait till after so much crisis?

On a lighter note: avoid gutter language. It's a sign of indecency. Look at your earlier statement.