The law is not necessarily always about what is right or about what is moral; it is rather about what is permissible from what is not

And so if Buhari can be a co-conspirator in a tragi-comic political melodrama in which he is to die to pave the way for another, Buhari can as well oblige a request from any of the PDP goons to do them a favour and ‘DROP DEAD!’

It is the moral right of any to criticise Buhari for staying ‘too long’ on medical treatment, it is not their ‘legal right’ to compel him to return or to resign unless they can show a law upon which their claim can be based

Parliament lords it over the people; the executive arm is hardly any less victimizing; nor are the courts any more credible as the ‘last hope of the common man’. Yet, the fact alone that the so called ‘peoples representatives’ now even make laws in spite of ‘the people’ is proof enough that ‘the people’ are not their own sovereigns

The question is asked, ‘when exactly can the President be said to be ‘incapable’ of discharging the functions of his office? Is it when a ‘sick’ –or maybe even healthy- President, for whatever reason, feels himself incapable of discharging the functions of his office; or is it when a cynical, or maybe even genuinely critical public, believes, rightly or wrongly, that the President is ‘incapable of discharging the functions of his office?

Although he was master of all, it cannot be denied that Maitama breathed ‘wisdom’ into every sphere of our national lives. He spoke truth to a nation driven by bigotry, prejudice, intolerance and hate

When so called ‘representatives of the people’ begin to feel no longer obligated to respect the will of those who elected them, a dictatorship of the legislature is afoot

The term ‘true federalism’ essentially is a misnomer, whether it is applied strictly in decrying a nation that ‘shares power and resources’ rather than grant ‘substantial autonomy’, or it is applied trivially in the condemnation of a ‘federation’ that still exhibit unitary attributes

Proposing ‘projects’ and ‘estimates’ in a ‘money bill’ –including capping the overall budget sum- is entirely an executive duty. Just as approving ‘projects’ and ‘estimates’ to those projects –including only reducing the overall budget sum- is purely a legislative function

The law suffers a form of juristic injustice in the hands especially of conservative judges who impose on themselves ‘incapacity’ to navigate the delicate labyrinth of the legal system in order to arrive at justice

The amalgamation that created the Nigerian union since expired; no where did they sign on to the military dictated Islamic constitution of Nigeria

The right of the Igbo or other ‘minorities’ to secede from a constitutionally governed Nigeria must be located in the complex hyacinth of these jurisprudential argument. And it is a right concurrent with –if not inferior to- the right of the democratic ‘majority’ to deny

For a man whose martyrdom watered the tree of the democracy that we enjoy today, true recognition consist only in declaring him President-elect posthumously –which will only be reaffirming that which he was, baring the annulment- and then also reversing May 29 to June 12 –which again will not be gratuitous

Most Nigerians today are not ready to love their country more than they love their constituencies

Like a gathering of giraffes, they tend always to attract too many tall egos, that end up neck-sizing as they compete for the skies. And no matter how long-necked or short-necked they come, in events like that, every giraffe is bound to meet its match, or even its better