Gbeleyi Emmanuel: Dapo Abiodun, 2027 and the antics of a drowning politician

In Nigeria, groups look arsenic governmental desperation dictates. And that’s a wherefore it is nary astonishment that thing called Human Global Resource Initiative has approached the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, seeking a restraining bid against INEC, SSS, and APC from fielding Governor Dapo Abiodun for immoderate elective bureau successful 2027. Pray erstwhile did the DSS commencement fielding candidates for elections? But that’s by the way. The group, an outgrowth of the leprous fingers of a drowning senator, alleges that Abiodun submitted fake world records and made mendacious declarations connected his INEC forms. This, then, is the ground for its quest for a perpetual injunction restraining INEC from considering Abiodun arsenic a candidate, and a declaration that Abiodun’s contradictions magnitude to mendacious declaration and violations of the Constitution and Electoral Act.

Given that these are issues already decided by the courts, it is not hard to spot that this is gross maltreatment of the tribunal process. But the perpetrators are decidedly shameless. Abuse of tribunal process means utilizing the ineligible strategy successful a mode that is imprope...