PHOTO: Twitter/Atiku Abubakar
I am naturally watching with keen interest the exchanges between the APC and the PDP over the petition by Atiku Abubakar and President Muhammadu Buhari, the exchanges which appear to be a rehearsal of what we are to expect from the hearings at the Election Petition Tribunal when it is convened.
It appears that for lawyers, to win a case, there are sometimes no limit to the extent you can go to dig out what to us laymen may be considered irrelevances meant only to appeal to our emotions rather than to reason. It is anything goes, fair or foul. What seems to me of utmost importance at this point in time is: Was the Presidential Election rigged or not? Was it free and was it fair? One of the grounds of appeal, which I consider otherwise solid and interesting, by the petitioner PDP is that Buhari does not have the West African School Certificate and so by implication he was not qualified to contest the last election ab initio. The APC, the respondent…
