{"id":123592,"date":"2023-11-25T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/nigerias-judiciary-becoming-coffin-of-democracy-shehu-sani-reacts-to-gov-mutfwangs-sack\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:17:25","slug":"nigerias-judiciary-becoming-coffin-of-democracy-shehu-sani-reacts-to-gov-mutfwangs-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/nigerias-judiciary-becoming-coffin-of-democracy-shehu-sani-reacts-to-gov-mutfwangs-sack\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nigeria’s Judiciary Becoming Coffin Of Democracy’ \u2013 Shehu Sani Reacts To Gov. Mutfwang’s Sack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shehu Sani, former Senator representing Kaduna Central, has posited that the judiciary will soon be the death of democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The socio-political commentator was reacting to the Appeal Court judgement that sacked Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State.<\/p>\n

Recall that the Appeal Court had set aside the judgement of the governorship election tribunal that upheld the election of Mutfwang as Governor of the state.<\/p>\n

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The court declared Nentawe Yilwatda of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the governorship election while ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a fresh certificate of return to him.<\/p>\n

Reacting, Sani said the verdict of the appellate court was unfortunate and unacceptable.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe Court of Appeal judgement against the electoral victory of the Plateau State Governor is unfortunate, unacceptable, and condemnable.<\/p>\n

\u201cA broad daylight heist of the will of the people. The bench is becoming the coffin of democracy,\u201d he wrote via X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n