NO MORE CHANCE!

                    No more chance! 


        The erudite judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Zamfara Governorship legal battle was a landmark one as it had successfully added a new scope to the Nigeria's electoral jurisprudence. The matter was a finer jurisprudential offshoot of the facts in issue in the celebrated case of Rotime Amaechi v. INEC & ors where the actual winner of the PDP primaries in Rivers - Rotimi Amaechi - was unlawfully removed and another candidate -Celestine Omehia - was presented to INEC as the Party's gubernatorial flag bearer. Amaechi stormed all the available courts to him until when he had a soft landing in the Supreme Court where his stolen mandate - at primaries though - was retrieved but on a larger pedestal. Yes! Celestine Omehia had contested on a stolen mandate and he won; however the almighty Supreme Court showed him the exit way when the victory was retrieved and given to the rightful would-be owner -Amaechi - if he had contested.

      Restoring the tempestuous political atmosphere and setting a new pace for our usual conundrum filled electoral jurisprudence, the Supreme Court sagaciously held that in any election as far as Nigeria is concerned, votes are cast for a party and not for the candidate representing the party. And as such, the victory belongs to the party that wins and not the candidate. Thus any party that violates any provisions of the Electoral Act -especially S. 138 - shall have it waist twisted around a live wire. So was the wisdom the same Supreme Court employed in Zamfara State to restore the victory back to the rightful owner since the initial victory owner - APC - thread on a soft pedals of electoral irregularities. While borrowing the indispensable dictum of Per Chukwudifu Oputa (of blessed memory), the Supreme Court is final not because it is infallible but it is infallible because it is final. The finality of the Supreme Court's decisions suggests an infinite infallibility which could only be revisited- may be at the great beyond.

The end. Gbam!

By: Ali Smart!

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