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TODAY, the final rites of passage would be completed with interment for an exceptional Nigerian, a man who dedicated his life to the struggle for improvement in all areas of our troubled national life – Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), better known to the rest of us as Gani.

AMAKIRI: Suit No. PHC/222?73 of 22-3-74 otherwise known as Amakiri Vs Iwowari case will go down in history as one of those legal battles that brought the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi to the consciousness of Nigerians.

Gani was very lively and had a very pleasant character and I’m not sure he had any dull moment. When we were together, he was always focused.

At his death, our government is both illegitimate and unaccountable. Like a malignant tumour, Maurice Iwu afflicts Nigeria’s electoral system with terminal illegitimacy. For some reason, those who are in a position to lance him affect inability and unwillingness to do so. If Gani were here, he would have trained his legal and campaigning guns at electoral alchemist that Maurice Iwu is.