Shaibu also said it was unfortunate that the Nigerian judiciary failed to live up to expectations
By Kehinde Okeowo
Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communications to ex-vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar has claimed that the independence of the judiciary in the United States of America led to the defeat of President Bola Tinubu at the Northern District of Illinois court.
He made the assertion, while reacting to the order by Justice Nancy Maldonado for the Chicago State University to release all of Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku.
According to Shaibu, the incumbent president has been evading justice since 1999 when the legendary humaShaibun rights lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), first blew the lid on his certificates scam.
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The Atiku aide also alleged that the judges at the Presidential Election Tribunal have continued to give Tinubu victory based on technicalities rather than deliver justice based on the merits of the cases.
He further noted that such decisions have led to over twenty dubious victories so far.
Shaibu also added that it was unfortunate that the Nigerian judiciary had failed to live up to expectations as the last hope of the common man.
He said, “Justice Maldonado, who has spent less than one year on the bench and who sat on this case for barely a month, has been able to do what the Nigerian judiciary could not do for 23 years.
“This explains why the Nigerian society is on the brink of slipping into the state of nature, which Thomas Hobbes described as short, brutish, and nasty.”
He also lambasted Tinubu’s lawyer and former National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, Babatunde Ogala, who described the US court victory as insignificant and insisted that the verdict would have no consequence on Atiku’s appeal against Tinubu’s victory at the Supreme Court.
Reacting to the comments, Shaibu, described Ogala as a legal and intellectual Lilliputian and asked him to bury his face in shame.