Nigeria’s democracy without legislators and judiciary, by Dele Sobowale
“Legislators have the first place in the temple of glory; conquerors come behind them” – Voltaire, 1694-1778, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 126 When one of the world’s leading philosophers made that remark in the eighteenth century, democracy was a new idea. What another sage, half a world away, in America, described as “the government […]
Quarreling on our collective graves
For a nation so heavily dependent on export of crude oil, our greatest fear should have been a global recession substantially reducing the price of crude because that would take us back to 1983-86 when the price of crude went below $15 per barrel. Today, we will be in dire straits if it fell below $90. The revolution so glibly invited by some leaders of thought will occur sooner than they think.
Jonathan’s oilgate: Greasing the exit gate
President Nixon succeeded Lyndon Johnson, who voluntarily rejected the second term bid once he found his country sharply divided, and, he, the President was the centre of all the raging and violent controversies. Nixon was later consumed by a crime called the Watergate Affair.
Removing your bull from our China shop
Commonsense is not common; otherwise the majority of voting adults in Nigeria who were announced according to the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, could not have marched to the polling booths, nationwide, April last year, freely and overwhelmingly voted for Goodluck Jonathan, despite warnings on this page, only to now turn around now and wring their fingers while the “bull” they have pulled into our “China Shop” is wrecking the joint.
Justice Salami’s reinstatement: A modest proposal
Poor Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the embattled former President of the Court of Appeal who was recommended for reinstatement from suspension by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The Council, undoubtedly, must have been inspired by the admonition of Lord Mansfield, 1705-1793, the English jurist, who left the world with the immortal words: “We must not regard political consequences, how formidable so ever they might be, if rebellion was the certain consequence. We are bound to say: “Fiat justina et ruant coeli (let justice be done, though the Heavens fall)”.
Why President, NSA must not resign – 3
Last week I ended this series by stating that President Jonathan does not know those behind the Boko Haram threat; neither does the National Security Adviser, NSA. They don’t know, not because they are incompetent or lack the will, as some have asserted but because we are engaged in a guerilla war in which the opponents of government forces know the JTF and Police but the forces cannot readily identify the terrorists.
