Nigeria: Obi - Victory for Nigerians, Lessons for Dictators

22 June 2007
opinion

JUSTICE Thugwood Marshal of the United States Supreme Court would applaud the judgement delivered last Thursday by the nation's Supreme Court Justices in the Peter Obi tenure case. The revered US Supreme Court Justice said, decades ago while sitting with other justices over a knotty constitutional issue in Marbury V. Madison, that anything that is "not prohibited but consistent with the letters and spirit of the constitution is constitutional."

Justice Katsina Alu justified this assertion in his lead judgment in the Anambra State governorship tenure case involving Peter Obi. The only thing that could make last Thursday's judgement to be different is if the Supreme Court had wanted to re-write the Constitution.

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