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If Nigerian Democracy Fails, it’s the legal profession that kills it – Okutepa

If Nigerian democracy fails, it is the legal profession that kills it. I said this because the responsibility to decide and determine electoral disputes either pre – or post arising out of the practice of democracy has been handed over to the legal profession by lawmakers. This is evident in the constitution section 285 thereof

A legal practitioner, Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN poured out some salient points concerning the ongoing Presidential election tribunal hoping that most of his colleagues, “the Almighty Judges” whose destinies of over 200 million Nigerians rest on their shoulders would listen. Read his statements below : “The manner in which we as lawyers keep defending desecration