Law Mefor: Curing the doubts over the presidential election tribunal - Daily Post Nigeria

…given the Onnogben and Usoro treatments, the apprehension of Nigerians in the presidential petition tribunal is not altogether misplaced and the eminent jurists need to know that so much depends on the quality of the judgment they deliver in the coming days. The general counsel remains: It must not be judgment without justice.

Perhaps more disturbing was that while Onnoghen’s travails lasted, the two judicial bodies that could intervene or mediate – the National Judicial Council and the Nigerian Bar Association – kept a safe distance.

The battle seemed well orchestrated and targeted at the NBA or it was just an unpleasant coincidence. Apart from the crazy judgment in the case of Senator Ademola Adeleke, where the Osun PDP gubernatorial candidate was made to suffer the avoidable misdeed of a judge, so far the shaking that took place in the judiciary cannot be said to have altered the arm so negatively. Many judgments have been passed by the various tribunals around the country and nothing much has suggested that the judiciary has been tied to anybody’s apron.

Nonetheless, given the Onnogben and Usoro treatments, the apprehension of Nigerians in the presidential petition tribunal is not altogether misplaced and the eminent jurists need to know that so much depends on the quality of the judgment they deliver in the coming days. The general counsel remains: It must not be judgment without justice. Or be a rehash of technicalities or political judgments, which Nigerians will neither understand nor accept as justice.

Despite all the odds, the five eminent jurists should be able to, in a justiciable manner, tell Nigerians whether or not the exercise substantially complied with the extant rules and regulations set out for it. And if it did, who indeed won.

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