Crisis Engulfs Nigeria Judiciary; as PDP and ACN Engage in a battle of Wits

Should the Nigerian Judiciary have any role to play in the forthcoming elections, particularly any Presidential election petition or should the Nigerian electorate and court of public opinion have the final say?

That is the question burning in the Mind of Observers as the his face-off between the President of the Court of Appeal, Justices Ayo, Salami and Justice Alloysius Katsina-Alu’s Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) escalates.

Hot on the heels of his face-off with the President of the Court of Appeal, Justices Ayo, Salami, another controversy raises dust in judicial and political circles. The Osun and Ekiti state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today submitted two petitions containing phone call logs retrieved pertaining to calls made between operatives of rival Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the president of the court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, during the last gubernatorial appeal tribunal sittings that upstaged two of its governors.

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