Mike Ozekhome (SAN), one of the counsels to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar said the strategy for the short judgment by the Supreme Cout on the appeal filed by the PDP, without reasons is to prevent unnecessary tension gripping the country once more like during elections.
Ozekhome made this known while reacting to the court judgment dismissing the appeal filed by the PDP. He said it was difficult for Atiku's lawyers to react to the ruling since the court failed to explain to Nigerians why it dismissed the appeal.
“I think the strategy for the short judgement without reasons is to prevent unnecessary tension gripping the country once more like during elections. At least today, the baby has been delivered, not aborted even if the baby is malformed.
“It is not the issue but the thing is the baby has been delivered but what manner of baby it is, what ingredients make up the being of the baby, we do not know yet?
“Those are the reasons the apex court said they will tell Nigerians and the world for dismissing this appeal as lacking in merit, we cannot say more than this because we have not heard the reasons.
“As far as the Justices are concerned, they have done the best they could under the strangulating regime of electoral jurisprudence.
“With the Supreme Court saying that the timeline provided in the Constitution is like the rock of Gibraltar, that cannot be moved, so you are being beaten, your hands are tied to the back and you are not even allowed to cry.
“Something drastic has to be done about our electoral laws and the electoral jurisprudence, so as to cleanse the stable and make people believe that when they vote, their votes would not only be counted but that such votes must also count.”
