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The ink was barely dry on the registration papers of the newly aligned opposition forces before the predictable script began to play out once again. With Atiku Abubakar emerging as the presidential flag bearer for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and his closest rival, Chibuike Amaechi, swiftly rejecting the outcome Nigerian politics is witnessing a …
There is a dangerous lie Nigerians tell themselves every election season: that the country is a democracy in the classical sense of the word. It is not. Elections happen, yes. Ballot papers are printed. Television stations host debates. Politicians crisscross the country in convoys longer than funeral processions for forgotten empires. But beneath the noise …
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Nigeria Supreme Court There is a question that has long occupied my thinking as a student of Nigerian jurisprudence — one that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of legal theory, political survival, and constitutional philosophy. How can a doctrine of necessity validly exist within a constitutional democracy? And more pointedly, how has Nigerian jurisprudence absorbed …
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