The Judiciary, its own enemy (1)
VIDEO: Deji Adeyanju, Sowore lead ENDSARS protest in Abuja
Still on Atiku’s ‘ambition’
On Atiku’s ambition
Jonathan@ 60: Lest we forget
‘Teachers’ or cheaters?
Much ado about Buhari’s appointment
Babachir, ‘Cabal’ as anti-theory
‘Wailers vs ‘Hailers’
Gaddafi: Tribute to a revolutionary
Still on Kanu: A parody
Revisiting ‘CAN’s descent to the medieval’
Singers, Swingers
Kanu: A parody
All hues, All flavours
On Osinbajo’s Eid speech
The stuff that speeches are made
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SubscribeIs the majority always right?
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
Gawa ta qi rami
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!’
Law and the politics of Buhari’s return
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
A re-make, not an amendment
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
On Buhari: ‘Sickness’ as constitutional offence
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?
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