Nigeria: Is Judiciary Under Siege By Executive?

23 January 2020

There are two major principles which are critical to the success of any democracy like ours. These are the principle of separation of powers and the principle of rule of law.

The principle of separation of powers, with its concomitant principle of checks and balances, as espoused by Montesquieu, postulates that the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the state must be exercised by separate and independent bodies and that no branch should be able to exercise too much power without checks and balances from the other.

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