Following the recent removal of the ‘All eyes on the Judiciary’ billboard in the Federal Capital Territory, DIRISU YAKUBU examines the controversy surrounding the action, which has been perceived by some stakeholders as mounting pressure on the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal ahead of the ruling on the February 25 presidential electionin the nation’s electioneering history has the judiciary courted attention like it is doing presently.
And despite pleas from eminent Nigerians, including the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, to accept the outcome of the election, both men filed their petitions and vowed to walk the entire legal distance to prove that the election was fraudulently conducted. Encouraged by an army of netizens led by a Twitter group, ‘Violence Space’, Obi is convinced that the litany of controversies surrounding Tinubu coupled with identified gaps in the election that brought him to power is enough for the tribunal to either declare Obi the winner or in the alternative, order a re-run.
The report read, “Overall, the justice sector had the highest level of corruption with a score of 63. The level of corruption in the justice sector was heightened by stupendously high amounts of money offered as bribes to judges by lawyers handling high electoral and other political cases. A large percentage, 73 per cent of justice sector respondents, did not experience a situation of outright demand or offer of a bribe.