In Nigeria, justice is in flight. In most cases those who approached Court for justice ended up getting judgment that would dislocate this rational thinking but force them to believe that our judiciary is not corrupt but rascal in adjudication. The rascality of the five Justices of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, PEPT confirming the mandate of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has further created more problems that it had tended to solve. In the 12 hours judgment, the five justices were seen defending the defendants, All Progressives Congress, APC in a petition brought against it by the duo of the Labour Party, LP and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the victory of the former candidate at the 2023 presidential election.
The natives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja appear to be the greatest beneficiaries of the rascality if the Justices if the Supreme Court would uphold the judgment that the FCT is a state in Nigeria. Already there are concerted efforts of the natives to approach the Supreme to order the Federal Government of Nigeria to conduct governorship and other necessary elections which other states in the country enjoy. The legal fireworks that would trail the pronouncement of PEPT in this regard is the focus of the cover story that is anchored by Miracle Egbo in this edition.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP originally founded by Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam is in tatters due to the conundrum caused by who should be in the control of the soul of the party. The two gladiators, Aniebonam and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 presidential election is at dagger drawn, smarting each other on who should control the apparatus of the party at the national level. The immediate or remote causes of the crisis in the party are dissected in this edition.
Across the country, the states’ electoral tribunals have churned out judgments that have made tongues to wag as to the credibility of the electoral umpire in the country, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in the conduct of the 2023 general elections. This edition captures the free fall of politicians at the tribunals who hitherto boasted that they were enjoying the mandate of the electorate because of their performance and acceptance among them.
Apapa Area Command of Customs has a new Controller. The rousing welcome ceremony of Comptroller Jide Jayeioba is graphically captured in the edition.
All the usuals are not left out in this edition.
Come inside and savour the menu.
